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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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 a long comment that is improperly stored because of limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type.

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.78%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.78%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

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
1.78% probability · 77th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
wordpress/wordpress
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.