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CVE-2015-3440

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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.

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html

http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74334

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032199

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/32299

https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.html

https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2015-08-03

Updated: 2016-12-06

Type: CWE-79

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

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