CVE-2008-0204 — Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in math-comment-spam-protection.php in the Math Comment Spam Protection 2.1 and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) mcsp_opt_msg_no_answer or (2) mcsp_opt_msg_wrong_answer parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php

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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in math-comment-spam-protection.php in the Math Comment Spam Protection 2.1 and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) mcsp_opt_msg_no_answer or (2) mcsp_opt_msg_wrong_answer parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php

Published Jan 10, 2008

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.85%

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in math-comment-spam-protection.php in the Math Comment Spam Protection 2.1 and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) mcsp_opt_msg_no_answer or (2) mcsp_opt_msg_wrong_answer parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.85% 0.01854

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01854

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.85% (0.01854)	78.38th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.85% (0.01854)	76.32th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.22% (0.00223)	42.82th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.26% (0.00259)	66.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 6, 2024	0.23% (0.00232)	61.08th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.22% (0.00220)	58.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (4)

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://websecurity.com.ua/1576/
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://websecurity.com.ua/1576/		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 10, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jan 9, 2008

Link CVE-2008-0204

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-0204

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-0204