CVE-2015-3429

Genericons vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

3.8%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

Automattic

Affected product

Genericons

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2015-06-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Automattic Genericons is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-3429.
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