Wordpress Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability Fixed by 4.2.2


Description   (:A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in WordPress.:A remote attacker could exploit it to inject arbitrary javascript or HTML via a long comment.::This vulnerability stems from the limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type in which the comment is stored.::The wordpress packages provided by Debian Wheezy 7 and Jessie 8 are vulnerable.)
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable OS:
GNU/Linux (Debian) - 7, 8Vulnerable Software:
WordPress (WordPress) - 4.2, 4.2.1
     
Solution   Fixed wordpress packages for Debian Wheezy 7 are available in LTS section.
     
CVE   CVE-2015-8834
     
References   - Debian Security Tracker : wordpress
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8834
- DSA 3639-1 : wordpress security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00217.html
- DLA 633-1 : wordpress security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/09/msg00026.html
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data
5.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2016-06-17 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote