CVE-2015-3429: Automattic Genericons

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Automattic Genericons: up to and including 3.3
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2015-06-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.