CVE-2015-5622

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.

References

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111

https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/

https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress3.html

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33359

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3332

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3