CVE-2015-4139 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in smilies4wp.php in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s4w-more parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in smilies4wp.php in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s4w-more parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php

Published Jun 18, 2015

3.5

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.55%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in smilies4wp.php in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s4w-more parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.55% 0.01553

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01553

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.55% (0.01553)	74.22th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.56% (0.01564)	71.97th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.18% (0.00179)	36.31th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	3.98% (0.03979)	80.37th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.14% (0.00139)	31.28th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00094)	41.50th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 13, 2024	0.09% (0.00094)	40.25th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00094)	38.24th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.06% (0.01061)	52.82th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 19, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	51.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	49.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	28.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/1
mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/2
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74914
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/1		mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/2		mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74914		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 18, 2015

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 31, 2015

Link CVE-2015-4139

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-4139

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-4139