CVE-2015-5714

moderate-risk
Published 2016-05-22

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.

Do I need to act?

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30.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 69% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 6.1/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 23/34 · High
Exploitability 16/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal