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CVE-2015-3429 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in example.html in Genericons before 3.3.1, as used in WordPress before 4.2.2, allows remote attac…

published 2015-06-17 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-3473

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in example.html in Genericons before 3.3.1, as used in WordPress before 4.2.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a fragment identifier.

Patch / fix

  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.2.2+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3429

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-3429 updated cvss 4.3

wordpress: two cross-site scripting flaws fixed in 4.2.2

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • digitalocean.com https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-from-the-genericons-example-html-xss-vulnerability referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • netsparker.com https://www.netsparker.com/cve-2015-3429-dom-xss-vulnerability-in-twenty-fifteen-wordpress-theme/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/41 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.