CVE-2015-3438 Information

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.

Reference

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.1.2 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157391.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74269 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032207 https://cedricvb.be/post/wordpress-stored-xss-vulnerability-4-1-2/ https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-1-2/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7929