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CVE-2015-8834
Published: May 22, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/
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https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2
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DSA-3639
vendor-advisory
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