Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2015-3440

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2015-3440 CWE-707

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities