CVE-2015-3429
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in example.html in Genericons before 3.3.1, as used in WordPress before 4.2.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a fragment identifier.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.2.2+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.2.2+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.2.2+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.2.2+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.2.2+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| automattic | genericons | {"endIncluding":"3.3"} | |
| wordpress | wordpress | {"endIncluding":"4.2.1"} | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131802/WordPress-Twenty-Fifteen-4.2.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/41
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535486/100/1000/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74534
- https://github.com/Automattic/Genericons/commit/798ac98579dd72dfdb11bdee3e7bebf01cffb1f7
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7965
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-from-the-genericons-example-html-xss-vulnerability
- https://www.netsparker.com/cve-2015-3429-dom-xss-vulnerability-in-twenty-fifteen-wordpress-theme/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3429
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.