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CVE-2015-8834

Published: 22 May 2016

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.

Priority

High

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
wordpress
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable

bionic Not vulnerable

cosmic Not vulnerable

disco Not vulnerable

precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream
Released (4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u17)
wily Not vulnerable
(4.3+dfsg-1)
xenial Not vulnerable

yakkety Not vulnerable

zesty Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N