CVE-2015-5622

LowCVSS 3.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the Author or Contributor role to place a crafted shortcode inside an HTML element, related to wp-includes/kses.php and wp-includes/shortcodes.php.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.5/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 3, 2015
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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