4 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
WordPress 4.2.2 is prone to a cross site scripting vulnerability that allows an authenticated user to bypass intended access restrictions and create drafts by leveraging the Subscriber role. Also, it allows to inject web script or HTML by leveraging the Author role to place a crafted shortcode inside an HTML element, that is related to wp-includes/kses.php and wp-includes/shortcodes.php.
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