Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published May 22, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-5714
CVE-2015-5714
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the mishandling of unclosed HTML elements during processing of shortcode tags.
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Affected products
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- (no CPE)
- cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=4.3.0
- (no CPE)range: <4.3.1
Patches
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References
9- codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.3.1nvdPatch
- wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3375nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/76745nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1033979nvd
- github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f72b21af23da6b6d54208e5c1d65ececdaa109c8nvd
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5714nvd
- wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8186nvd
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