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 because of limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

16.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 97th percentile

Published

2015-08-03

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• Cng000/web_sec_WK70★ · 2018-04-09
• dkohli23/WordPressLab7and80★ · 2021-05-23

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844

Security advisories

• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74334

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2019-8943