CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3438
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4.1.2, when MySQL is used without strict mode, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) four-byte UTF-8 character or (2) invalid character that reaches the database layer, as demonstrated by a crafted character in a comment.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.1.1)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.1.2 Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74269 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032207 www.securitytracker.com
- https://cedricvb.be/post/wordpress-stored-xss-vulnerability-4-1-2/ Exploit
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-1-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7929 wpvulndb.com
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.1.2 Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74269 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032207 www.securitytracker.com
- https://cedricvb.be/post/wordpress-stored-xss-vulnerability-4-1-2/ Exploit
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-1-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7929 wpvulndb.com