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CVE-2015-3440

medium · 4.3

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.

4.3
CVSS
16.9%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
97th
EPSS percentile
2015-08-03
Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
debiandebian_linux7.0
debiandebian_linux8.0
wordpresswordpress<= 4.2

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References

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