What is CVE-2015-9501?

CVE-2015-9501 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artificial Intelligence Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-10-22.

How severe is CVE-2015-9501?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2015-9501 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Artificial Intelligence Project

CVE-2015-9501

The Artificial Intelligence theme before 1.2.4 for WordPress has XSS because Genericons HTML files are unnecessarily placed under the web root.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-10-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (60.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 61st percentile — 60.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Artificial Intelligence Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7994 (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/duchenerc/artificial-intelligence/commit/c70631b1f80518411df2f884760… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9501?: CVE-2015-9501 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artificial Intelligence Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-10-22.
How severe is CVE-2015-9501?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2015-9501 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.