GSD-2015-5714

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20
Details
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the mishandling of unclosed HTML elements during processing of shortcode tags.
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CVE-2015-5714
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