CVE-2012-2403: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress before 3.3.2 attempts to enable clickable links inside attributes, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.3.1; version 0.71 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

Published 2012-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.