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CVE-2015-3440

CVE-2015-3440

EPSS 17.9%
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 3
cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlunverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844unverified
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References
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlhttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/32299http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.htmlhttps://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/