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CVE-2015-3440 EXPLOIT

4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 16.9% (pctl 97)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 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.

Scoring

CVSS4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
VectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS16.89% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs
WeaknessCWE-79
On CISA KEVno
Public exploityes
Published2015-08-03
Last modified2026-06-17

Affected (2)

VendorProduct
debiandebian linux
wordpresswordpress

Public exploits

SourceTitleDate
exploit-dbWordPress Core 4.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting2015-04-27

References

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