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.
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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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6
CVSS 6.1/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Affected Vendors
References (18)
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
23/34 · High
Exploitability
16/34 · Moderate
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal