CVE-2015-8834

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 22, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Mar 25, 2016

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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2
DSA-3639vendor-advisory

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