CVE-2015-3438 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting5 documents5 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WordpressDebian WordpressDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4.1.2, when MySQL is used without strict mode, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) four-byte UTF-8 character or (2) invalid character that reaches the database layer, as demonstrated by a crafted character in a comment.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.2+dfsg-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0

Patches

Patch: codex.wordpress.org ↗Patch: wordpress.org ↗Patch: codex.wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-cv8p-7fxf-fmqr: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-3438: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4↗2015-08-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2015-3438: wordpress - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4.1.2, w...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3438 CVE-2015-3439 wordpress: several vulnerabilities fixed in Wordpress 4.1.2↗2015-04-23
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