Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting wordpress package, versions <4.2.2+dfsg-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363658
- published 22 May 2016
- disclosed 22 May 2016
Introduced: 22 May 2016
CVE-2015-8834 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
wordpress
to version 4.2.2+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:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3440.