CVE-2015-8834
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.75%wordpress - security update
Published: 5/22/2016Modified: 5/27/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8834
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 4.2.2+dfsg-1
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u12
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u9
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |