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.
Advisories
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-633-1 wordpress security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3639-1 wordpress security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8700 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:22.082Z

Reserved: 2016-03-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8834

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-05-22T01:59:04.757

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-8834

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