CVE-2015-8834

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2Patch
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2Patch
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 22, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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