CVE-2015-5622

no score yetEPSS 4.9%

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the Author or Contributor role to place a crafted shortcode inside an HTML element, related to wp-includes/kses.php and wp-includes/shortcodes.php.

EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2015-08-03
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:debian_linux
wordpress:wordpress

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3332
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383

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