PT-2015-7056 · WordPress · Wordpress

Marc-Alexandre Montpas · Published 2015-08-10 · Updated 2017-09-21 · CVE-2015-5733

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 4.2.4

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists due to insufficient input validation in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function. This allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.2.4, update to version 4.2.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the nav-menu.js file in wp-admin/js to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-5733

MGASA-2015-0309

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 21

• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5733 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0309 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0309.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-5733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5733 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.4 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1033178 · Note
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33541 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/7 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5733 · Note