{"cve":"CVE-2015-3440","nvd":{"published":"2015-08-03T14:59:00.103","modified":"2026-06-17T00:25:56.003","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-79"],"references":["http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1","http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html","http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html","http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html","http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","wordpress:wordpress"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:36:40.444340523+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2015-3440","score":0.16889,"percentile":0.97051,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}