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CVE-2008-2068

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2068 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress version 2.5, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through unspecified vectors. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code or Metasploit modules are available. The CVE has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting low public awareness and a low likelihood of widespread exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0215 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-2068

wordpress: security fixes in upstream version 2.5.1 (CVE-2008-1930, CVE-2008-2068)

Apr 25, 2008

References

secunia.com / advisories/29965
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42029
wordpress.org / development/2008/04/wordpress-251