CVE-2015-3438

WordPress < 4.1.2 - Cross-Site Scripting via UTF-8 Character Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4.1.2, when MySQL is used without strict mode, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) four-byte UTF-8 character or (2) invalid character that reaches the database layer, as demonstrated by a crafted character in a comment.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7929
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-1-2/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74269
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032207
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250
Patch x_refsource_confirm
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.1.2
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0161
EPSS Percentile 82.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
wordpress/wordpress < 4.1.1
Published Aug 05, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026