CVE-2015-5733
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp...
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.
- Record
CVE-2015-5733- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.
- Record
CVE-2015-5733- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-5679 No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.
- Record
EUVD-2015-5679- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-m99g-ph7c-7m5v No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp...
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.
- Record
GHSA-m99g-ph7c-7m5v- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.
- Record
CVE-2015-5733- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2015-5733 No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5733- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2015-0309 No score
Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerability
The wordpress package has been updated to version 3.9.8, fixing three cross-site scripting issues (CVE-2015-5732, CVE-2015-5733, CVE-2015-5734), a potential timing side-channel attack in Customizer (CVe-2015-5730), an issue in Heartbeat where an attacker could lock a post from being edited (CVE-2015-5731), and an SQL injection issue (CVE-2015-2213), as well as other bugs. See the upstream announcement and release notes for more details.
- Record
MGASA-2015-0309- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2015-5733 No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the refreshAdvancedAccessibilityOfItem function in wp-admin/js/nav-menu.js in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an accessibility-helper title.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5733- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| affected, facts | ||
| affected | ||
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2015-5733 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Wordpress, published August 10, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 4.96%, the 92nd percentile. Fixed in wordpress 4.2.4+dfsg-1.
References
wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release
core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33541
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/7
securitytracker.com/id/1033178
wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8132
securityfocus.com/bid/76331
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codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.4
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5733
github.com/advisories/GHSA-m99g-ph7c-7m5v
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5733
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0309.html
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16531
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5733
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5733