VDB
CVE-2015-5714
CVE-2015-5714
REJECTED
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the mishandling of unclosed HTML elements during processing of shortcode tags.
EPSS 30.65% · 96.8th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
30.65%
96.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | wordpress | 4.3+dfsg-1, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8186 (circl)
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.3.1 (circl)
- DSA-3375 (circl)
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f72b21af23da6b6d54208e5c1d65ececdaa109c8 (circl)
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/ (circl)
- 1033979 (circl)
- DSA-3383 (circl)
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5714 (circl)
- 76745 (circl)
Timeline
- Sep 18, 2015 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jan 7, 2024 EPSS Score
- Mar 17, 2025 EPSS Score
- Mar 23, 2025 EPSS Score
- Mar 24, 2025 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2025 EPSS Score
- Mar 30, 2025 EPSS Score
- May 4, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jun 1, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jun 4, 2025 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5714 third-party-advisory
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/ third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f72b21af23da6b6d54208e5c1d65ececdaa109c8 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5714 third-party-advisory