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CVE-2015-8834
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-05-22T01:59:04.757 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:20.213

Summary

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.

Affected products

wordpress — wordpress

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References

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