CVE-2015-5622

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.4

MODERATE

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.968

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Update wordpress 4.2.2 to latest version	Windows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234