Re: CVE requset: WordPress XSS vulnerability in RSS Feed Generator

[Steffen Joeris <steffen.joeris () skolelinux de>]

Hi

> a XSS vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress.
>
> Vendor info:
> http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/
>
> Detailed information:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652 (Note: It should be
> "prior to 2.6.5" in the summary)
I might be off here, but doesn't the patch[0] create another XSS by removing 
wp_specialchars?

Cheers
Steffen

[0]: 
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.6.3&old=&new_path=tags%2F2.6.5&new=

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