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CVE-2015-5622

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.

  • Published: Aug 3, 2015
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2015-5622
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.5
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

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Software From Fixed in
WordPress / wordpress - 4.2.2.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x