Vulnerability CVE-2015-5622
Published: 2015-08-03   Modified: 2015-08-04

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.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.5/10
2.9/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3332
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33359
https://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress3.html
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111
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