CVE-2014-9031: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wptexturize function in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted use of shortcode brackets in a text field, as demonstrated by a comment or a post.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.7.4; version 3.8 only; version 3.8.1 only; version 3.8.2 only; version 3.8.3 only; version 3.8.4 only; …

Published 2014-11-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.