PT-2015-6227 · WordPress · Wordpress

Cedric Van Bockhaven · Published 2015-05-04 · Updated 2024-01-21 · CVE-2015-3438

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 WordPress versions prior to 4.1.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted character in a comment, potentially affecting WordPress installations that use MySQL without strict mode. This can be achieved by injecting a four-byte UTF-8 character or an invalid character that reaches the database layer.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.1.2, update to version 4.1.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting user input to prevent the injection of malicious characters.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3438

DLA-236-1

DSA-3250-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 31

• 🔥 https://cedricvb.be/post/wordpress-stored-xss-vulnerability-4-1-2 · Exploit
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.1.2 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-3438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3438 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3250-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-1-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3438 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3438 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3438 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3250-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3440 · Security Note