GSD-2015-3440

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20
Details
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.
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CVE-2015-3440
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      "lastModifiedDate": "2016-12-06T03:01Z",
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