6.1

CVE-2015-5734: wordpress Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.1v3.1MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2015-5734
Published 09-11-2015Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-5734 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 6.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.7% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 3.7.10.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.1/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
6.54%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4
DLA-294-1DSA-3332-1DSA-3383-1MGASA-2015-0309

Timeline

  1. 09-11-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the legacy theme preview implementation in wp-includes/theme.php in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

6.54%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

94%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 6.54% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
6.54%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress< 3.7 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 3.7, ≤ 3.7.9 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 3.8, ≤ 3.8.9 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 3.9, ≤ 3.9.7 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 4.0, ≤ 4.0.6 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 4.1, ≤ 4.1.6 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 4.2, ≤ 4.2.3 (fixed in 3.7.10)
  • wordpress≤ 4.2.3
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 4.2.4+dfsg-1

2 vendors · 3 products

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