CVE-2015-5714 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting12 documents6 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
NVD5.4
EPSS
30.6%
top 3.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WordpressDebian Wordpress
Timeline
PublishedMay 22
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the mishandling of unclosed HTML elements during processing of shortcode tags.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.3.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.3.1+dfsg-1+3

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-92h3-fjv6-rmmc: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4↗2022-05-17
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GHSA
GHSA-2v2w-x4hx-4vf7: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user list table in WordPress before 4↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-7989: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user list table in WordPress before 4↗2016-05-22
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OSV
CVE-2015-5714: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4↗2016-05-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
WordPress
WordPress 4.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release↗2015-09-15
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Debian
CVE-2015-7989: wordpress - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user list table in WordPress bef...↗2015
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Debian
CVE-2015-5714: wordpress - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote...↗2015
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5714 CVE-2015-5715 CVE-2015-7989 wordpress: XSS and permission issue fixed in wordpress 4.3.1 [fedora-all]↗2015-09-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5714 CVE-2015-5715 CVE-2015-7989 wordpress: XSS and permission issue fixed in wordpress 4.3.1 [epel-all]↗2015-09-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5714 CVE-2015-5715 CVE-2015-7989 wordpress: XSS and permission issue fixed in wordpress 4.3.1↗2015-09-16
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