CVE-2015-8834

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3440.

CVSS v3.0

6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

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

EPSS

1.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 77th percentile

Nuclei

high

Published

2016-05-22

Updated

2024-08-06

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2015/CVE-2015-8834-wordpress-7d…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2015-8832
• CVE-2015-8841
• CVE-2015-8831
• CVE-2015-8858
• CVE-2015-8813
• CVE-2015-8861