Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting wordpress package, versions <4.2.1+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
91.73% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-WORDPRESS-1563939
  • published3 Aug 2015
  • disclosed3 Aug 2015

Introduced: 3 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-3440  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 wordpress to version 4.2.1+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1