CVE-2015-3440
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long comment that is improperly stored
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long comment that is improperly stored
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 16.88% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2015-08-03 14:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 05:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-04-28
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8a74f0563809e67afbe6a69eb82f69c6ffcae5037344fe77acd19dc9c6f65ca7
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.exploit-db.com36844https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-6778http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html
- codex.wordpress.orghttp://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1
- klikki.fihttps://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.html
- wpvulndb.comhttps://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945
- wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-6790http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html
- www.securityfocus.com74334http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74334
- seclists.org20150426 WordPress 4.2 stored XSShttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84
- core.trac.wordpress.orghttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/32299
- osvdb.org121320http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320
- www.securitytracker.com1032199http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032199
- www.debian.orgDSA-3250http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-6808http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- wordpress Fixed in 4.2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- wordpress Fixed in 4.2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- wordpress Fixed in 4.2.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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