CVE-2015-8834: 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…

PriorityP426medium6.1CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUIRSCCLILAN

EPSS

1.78%

75.8th percentile

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 4.2.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 4.2.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 4.2.1	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.2+dfsg-1	4.2.2+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.2+dfsg-1	4.2.2+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.2+dfsg-1	4.2.2+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.2+dfsg-1	4.2.2+dfsg-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.1MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv4.3MEDIUM

vendor_debian4.3MEDIUM

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