CVE-2015-3440
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3440
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-3440.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-3440
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2015-08-03T14:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:25Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84
- https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74334
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032199
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/32299
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945