Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published May 22, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-8834
CVE-2015-8834
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.
Affected products
2cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=4.2.1
- (no CPE)range: <4.2.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.2nvdPatch
- wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639nvd
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