CVE-2015-3438

published 2015-08-05

CVE-2015-3438: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4.1.2, when MySQL is used without strict mode, allow remote attackers to inject…

Priority P4 24 medium 4.3 CVSS 2.0

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

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.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 4.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 4.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 4.1.1	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2+dfsg-1	4.2+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2+dfsg-1	4.2+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2+dfsg-1	4.2+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2+dfsg-1	4.2+dfsg-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 4.3 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.3 MEDIUM

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