CVE-2015-5714

Published: 22 May 2016

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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 6.1

Status

Package	Release	Status
wordpress Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (4.3.1+dfsg-1)



	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Not vulnerable (4.3.1+dfsg-1)
	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable (4.3.1+dfsg-1)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist (trusty was needed)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5714
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f72b21af23da6b6d54208e5c1d65ececdaa109c8
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799140

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