| Name | CVE-2015-5714 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-321-1, DSA-3375-1, DSA-3383-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 799140 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.1.35+dfsg-0+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 4.7.23+dfsg-0+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 5.0.21+dfsg1-0+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.7.11+dfsg1-0+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 6.1.6+dfsg1-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 6.6.1+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | source | squeeze | 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb6u8 | DLA-321-1 | ||
| wordpress | source | wheezy | 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u8 | DSA-3383-1 | ||
| wordpress | source | jessie | 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u5 | DSA-3375-1 | ||
| wordpress | source | (unstable) | 4.3.1+dfsg-1 | 799140 |
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f72b21af23da6b6d54208e5c1d65ececdaa109c8