CVE-2010-5295: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a plugin's author field, which is not properly handled during a Delete Plugin action.

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.