CVE-2015-5622 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting8 documents6 sources
Severity
3.5LOWNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.37%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WordpressDebian WordpressDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedAug 3
Latest updateMay 17

Description

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 6.8 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.2.3+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.2.3+dfsg-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-cg2j-v6g7-3q66: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-5622: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4↗2015-08-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2015-5622: wordpress - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.2.3 allows remote...↗2015
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💬Community

4
HackerOne
[bbPress] Stored XSS in any forum post.↗2016-09-01
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5622 CVE-2015-5623 wordpress: cross-site scripting and permission issue fixed in [fedora-all]↗2015-07-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5622 CVE-2015-5623 wordpress: cross-site scripting and permission issue fixed in wordpress 4.2.3↗2015-07-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5622 CVE-2015-5623 wordpress: cross-site scripting and permission issue fixed in [epel-all]↗2015-07-24
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