CVE-2012-0782: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) dbhost, (2) dbname, or (3) uname parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue; also, it is unclear whether this specific XSS scenario has security relevance

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.3.1; version 0.7 only; version 0.71 only; version 0.72 only; version 0.711 only; version 1.0 only; …

Published 2012-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.