CVE-2015-5622

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the Author or Contributor role to place a crafted shortcode inside an HTML element, related to wp-includes/kses.php and wp-includes/shortcodes.php.

CVSS v2.0

3.5 LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

4.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 91th percentile

Nuclei

low

Published

2015-08-03

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• ahmedj98/Pentesting-Unit-70★ · 2021-11-03
• lihaojin/WordPress-Pentesting0★ · 2018-04-18

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2015/CVE-2015-5622-wordpress-4d…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2015-5623
• CVE-2015-5714
• CVE-2017-6817
• CVE-2015-5621
• CVE-2015-5617
• CVE-2015-5688