cve-2015-5622
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-08-03 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:59
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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