VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2015-5714
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the mishandling of unclosed HTML elements during processing of shortcode tags.
MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 6.94%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (6.94%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the mishandling of unclosed HTML elements during processing of shortcode tags.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 6.94% probability · 94th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3375
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76745
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033979
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.3.1Patch
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f72b21af23da6b6d54208e5c1d65ececdaa109c8
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5714
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8186
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3375
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76745
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033979
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.3.1Patch
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f72b21af23da6b6d54208e5c1d65ececdaa109c8
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5714
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8186
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.