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 NVD

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

EPSS

4.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 92nd percentile

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

Security advisories

• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2015-5623
• CVE-2015-5714
• CVE-2017-6817