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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2015-5622

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Severity

Low

Classification

CVE-2015-5622 CWE-707

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities