CVE-2015-3438

Published Aug 5, 2015

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4.1.2, when MySQL is used without strict mode, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) four-byte UTF-8 character or (2) invalid character that reaches the database layer, as demonstrated by a crafted character in a comment.
Source: security@debian.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Configurations

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  {
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      {
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            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "081087E7-CFFB-4E22-B480-1F6D28B62950",
            "versionEndIncluding": "4.1.1"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "16F59A04-14CF-49E2-9973-645477EA09DA"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "C11E6FB0-C8C0-4527-9AA0-CB9B316F8F43"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

References