Vulnerability CVE-2015-3438
Published: 2015-08-04   Modified: 2015-08-05

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
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
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