The Erudite

The Erudite has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2011; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.1, and the most serious one scores 6.1 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for The Erudite has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

The Erudite is installed on roughly 100 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The upstream project has not shipped an update in about 14 years, so new fixes are unlikely to arrive on their own.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.1/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.1CVE-2011-3864

The Erudite <= 2.7.8 - Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2011-09-28 00:00	The Erudite <= 2.7.8 - Cross-Site Scripting The Erudite <= 2.7.8	`CVE-2011-3864`	6.1 Medium	Anonymous	Yes

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Latestv3.2

The Erudite

Author

Matt Wiebe

5.0(1)

100/100

Last Updated

2012-06-14 (14y ago)

Active Installs

100+

Downloads

147,364

Requires WP

Requires PHP

Created

2009-05-08 (18y ago)

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