CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3440
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-03
- 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
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long comment that is improperly stored because of limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1 codex.wordpress.org
- 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://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320 osvdb.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84 Exploit
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74334 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032199 www.securitytracker.com
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/32299 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.html Exploit
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945 wpvulndb.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/ Exploit
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1 codex.wordpress.org
- 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://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320 osvdb.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84 Exploit
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74334 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032199 www.securitytracker.com
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/32299 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.html Exploit
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945 wpvulndb.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/ Exploit