CVE-2015-3440

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.

Published: Aug 3, 2015
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2015-3440
Severity: Low
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-79

OWASP TOP 10:

A7 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
debian / debian_linux	8.0	8.0.x
debian / debian_linux	7.0	7.0.x
WordPress / wordpress	-	4.2.x

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/

Vulnerability Database

289,697

CVE-2015-3440