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CVE-2015-3429

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in example.html in Genericons before 3.3.1, as used in WordPress before 4.2.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a fragment identifier.

Affected products

• Automattic Genericons: through 3.3
• Debian Linux: 8.0

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131802/WordPress-Twenty-Fifteen-4.2.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/41
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535486/100/1000/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74534
• https://github.com/Automattic/Genericons/commit/798ac98579dd72dfdb11bdee3e7bebf01cffb1f7
• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7965
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-from-the-genericons-example-html-xss-vulnerability
• https://www.netsparker.com/cve-2015-3429-dom-xss-vulnerability-in-twenty-fifteen-wordpress-theme/

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