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CVE-2015-5622
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or…
Low3.5EPSS 4.9%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.9% · top 7.9% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (11)
- DSA-3328 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3332 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1033037 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 76011 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-3383 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150723 Re: CVE request: WordPress 4.2.2 and earlier cross-site scripting vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33359 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress3.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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