PT-2015-6229 · WordPress · Wordpress

Klikki · Published 2015-05-04 · Updated 2016-12-06 · CVE-2015-3440

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 4.2.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists due to improper storage of long comments in the MySQL database, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.2.1, update to version 4.2.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3440

DLA-236-1

DSA-3250-1

MGASA-2015-0202

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 36

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/36844 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3440 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0202.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3440 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3440 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3439 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3440 · 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0202 · Vendor Advisory