CVE-2015-3440 in WordPress

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.

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• Reservation: 04/28/2015
• Disclosure: 08/03/2015
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-76885 (2)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-79 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 4.3
• EPSS: 0.10809
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3440
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3440
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-3440/