CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5622
3.5 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the Author or Contributor role to place a crafted shortcode inside an HTML element, related to wp-includes/kses.php and wp-includes/shortcodes.php.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.2.2)
• 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_4.2.3 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3332 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037 www.securitytracker.com
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33359 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress3.html klikki.fi
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111 wpvulndb.com
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3332 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037 www.securitytracker.com
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33359 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress3.html klikki.fi
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111 wpvulndb.com