PT-2016-4040 · WordPress · Wordpress

Robert Abela · Published 2016-05-22 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2015-8834

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions 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 long comment that is improperly stored due to limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.2.2, update to version 4.2.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8834

DLA-633-1

DSA-3639-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 19

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8834 · Vendor Advisory
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2 · Patch
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5835 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8834 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8834 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8834 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5834 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8834 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3639-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5832 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5838 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5839 · Security Note