Medium severity · published May 22, 2016
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…
6.1
CVSS
6.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)6.9% · higher than 94% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WO
WordPress · WordPress
through 4.3.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5714
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5714
www.debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3375
www.debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76745
www.securitytracker.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033979
Patch
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.3.1
github.com
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f72b21af23da6b6d54208e5c1d65ececdaa109c8
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