CVE-2015-8834 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting5 documents5 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
OSV4.3
EPSS
0.7%
top 26.85%
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 wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3440.

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 4.2.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.2.2+dfsg-1+3

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-c2wg-9wh8-qj37: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-8834: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db↗2016-05-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2015-8834: wordpress - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress b...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8834 wordpress: XSS vulnerability allowing to inject script via long comment↗2016-05-24
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