CVE-2015-3440
50Vexday Risk Score
Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Actepss 18%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDAug 3
1st PoCApr 27
VulnCheckApr 27
exploitation probability
18%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
3 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 3
cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlunverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlhttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/32299http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.htmlhttps://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/