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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

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Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-36844

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated
  4. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 16

Exploit-DB

lists.fedoraproject.org

codex.wordpress.org

klikki.fi

wpvulndb.com

wordpress.org

securityfocus.com

seclists.org

core.trac.wordpress.org

osvdb.org

securitytracker.com

debian.org

packetstormsecurity.com