CVE-2010-4710

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the addItem method in the Menu widget in YUI before 2.9.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a field that is added to a menu, related to documentation that specifies this field as a text field rather than an HTML field, a similar issue to CVE-2010-4569 and CVE-2010-4570.

Published: 2011-01-28 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-4710 is rated Low Risk (33.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.23%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-4710

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-04 0.26% 0.23% -0.02%
2 2026-03-01 0.23% 0.26% +0.02%
3 2026-02-04 0.23%

Full EPSS history (24 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-4710

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-4710

OS Trackers for CVE-2010-4710

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu negligible CVE-2010-4710 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (yui), 8 status rows across 8 suites (dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): ignored 6, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-4710

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-4710

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
yahoo yui <= 2.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.2.2 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.3.1 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.4.1 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.5.1 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.5.2 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.6.0 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.7.0 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.8.1 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo yui 2.8.1 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.8.1:pr1:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-4710

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