{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3438","details":"Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 4.1.2, when MySQL is used without strict mode, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) four-byte UTF-8 character or (2) invalid character that reaches the database layer, as demonstrated by a crafted character in a comment.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:32:56.026082Z","published":"2015-08-05T01:59:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:43:12Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-3438"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3438"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-1-2/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3438"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"wordpress","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wordpress@4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"}]}],"versions":["4.3+dfsg-1","4.3.1+dfsg-1","4.4+dfsg-1","4.4.1+dfsg-1","4.4.2+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1","binary_name":"wordpress"},{"binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1","binary_name":"wordpress-l10n"},{"binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1","binary_name":"wordpress-theme-twentyfifteen"},{"binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1","binary_name":"wordpress-theme-twentyfourteen"},{"binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1","binary_name":"wordpress-theme-twentysixteen"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3438.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}