CVE-2015-5622

low

Published 2015-08-03 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.2.3+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`4.2.3+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`4.2.3+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.2.3+dfsg-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.2.3+dfsg-1`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
wordpress	wordpress	`{"endIncluding":"4.2.2"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.