CVE-2015-5622

low
Published 2015-08-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
3.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5622

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.2.3+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.2.3+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.2.3+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed4.2.3+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.2.3+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"4.2.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.