CVE-2015-5714 (GCVE-0-2015-5714)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-05-22 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:59
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the mishandling of unclosed HTML elements during processing of shortcode tags.
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