VDB
CVE-2015-5622
CVE-2015-5622
PUBLISHED
CVSS 3.5 LOW
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the Author or Contributor role to place a crafted shortcode inside an HTML element, related to wp-includes/kses.php and wp-includes/shortcodes.php.
EPSS 0.97% · 77.0th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 2.0
3.5
EPSS Score
0.97%
77.0th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 |
| wordpress | wordpress | 0 |
Timeline
- CVE Published
- Sep 1, 2016 PoC Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 16, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- DSA-3328 vendor-advisory
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3 url
- DSA-3332 vendor-advisory
- 1033037 vdb
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/ url
- 76011 vdb
- DSA-3383 vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20150723 Re: CVE request: WordPress 4.2.2 and earlier cross-site scripting vulnerability mailing-list
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33359 url
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111 url
- https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress3.html url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5622 advisory
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3 url