4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-3438

Published: 05/08/2015 Updated: 06/12/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress prior to 4.1.2, when MySQL is used without strict mode, allow remote malicious users 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #783347 wordpress: New critical security release available: 412 (CVE-2015-3438 CVE-2015-3439) Package: wordpress; Maintainer for wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Source for wordpress is src:wordpress (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Christer Mjellem Strand <dilldall@bjorkorg> ...
Debian Bug report logs - #783554 wordpress: New critical security release available: 421 (CVE-2015-3440) Package: src:wordpress; Maintainer for src:wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Reported by: Craig Small <csmall@debianorg> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:24:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security Found ...
Multiple security issues have been discovered in Wordpress, a weblog manager, that could allow remote attackers to upload files with invalid or unsafe names, mount social engineering attacks or compromise a site via cross-site scripting, and inject SQL commands More information can be found in the upstream advisories at wordpressorg/news/ ...