CVE-2015-8834

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…

published May 22, 2016

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01784 · 78.1th percentile
Published
2016-05-22T01:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 01:00Z
    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…
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