CVE-2015-5714: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the mishandling of unclosed HTML elements during processing of shortcode tags.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 4.3.0

Published 2016-05-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.