Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8834

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-22 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:29:22
Assigner mitre
State 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.