FKIE_CVE-2015-8834

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-22 01:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:35
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639
cve@mitre.orghttps://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wordpress wordpress *
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