PT-2015-6226 · Automattic · Wordpress+1

Robert Abela · Published 2015-06-17 · Updated 2018-10-09 · CVE-2015-3429

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Genericons versions prior to 3.3.1 WordPress versions prior to 4.2.2

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a fragment identifier. This affects the example.html file in Genericons, which is used in WordPress.

Recommendations For Genericons versions prior to 3.3.1, update to version 3.3.1 or later. For WordPress versions prior to 4.2.2, update to version 4.2.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3429

DSA-3328-1

DSA-3328-2

Affected Products

Genericons

Wordpress

References · 28

• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/41 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://netsparker.com/cve-2015-3429-dom-xss-vulnerability-in-twenty-fifteen-wordpress-theme · Exploit
• 🔥 https://digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-from-the-genericons-example-html-xss-vulnerability · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-3429 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3429 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3328-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3429 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3429 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3328-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3429 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3429 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5622 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5623 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3429 · Vendor Advisory