CVE-2010-5294: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the request_filesystem_credentials function in wp-admin/includes/file.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 allow remote servers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by providing a crafted error message for a (1) FTP or (2) SSH connection attempt.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.0.1; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2014-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.