CVE-2015-5622

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…

published August 3, 2015

CVSS
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EPSS
5%
Percentile
92.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04909 · 92.0th percentile
Published
2015-08-03T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 AUG 14:00Z
    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…
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