Arbitrary Script Injection in WordPress Shortcodes

CVE-2015-5622 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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