CVE-2015-3440

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to i

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.14391

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EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
EPSS percentile: top 5% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
Public exploit or PoC is available

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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Affected Products & Versions

debian linuxall versions

wordpress<= 4.2

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Public Exploits & PoCs

webappsWordPress Core 4.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scriptingverified
pocpacketstormsecurity.com · WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlpacketstormsecurity.com
pocklikki.fi · wordpress2.htmlklikki.fi
pocwww.exploit-db.com · 36844www.exploit-db.com

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Scoring & Timeline

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · security@debian.org

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

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

Published to NVD03 Aug 2015 · 02:59 PM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

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

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

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945

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