CVE-2015-8834 | BDVDB-2026-76084 Detail

Description#

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12016-05-22Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.