CVE-2015-3440 Information

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long comment that is improperly stored because of limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type.

Reference

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.1 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://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121320 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131644/WordPress-4.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/84 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3250 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74334 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032199 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/32299 https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress2.html https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7945 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36844/