FKIE_CVE-2015-3440
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-08-03 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:25
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | * |
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