CVE-2015-5622

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
WordPress: through 4.2.2

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
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33359
https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress3.html
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3

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