CVE-2016-4566 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting7 documents5 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
4.7%
top 10.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WordpressDebian WordpressPlupload
Timeline
PublishedMay 22
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plupload.flash.swf in Plupload before 2.1.9, as used in WordPress before 4.5.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Same-Origin Method Execution (SOME) attack.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.5.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.5.2+dfsg-1+3

Patches

Patch: codex.wordpress.org ↗Patch: core.trac.wordpress.org ↗Patch: wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-cv88-x229-26m4: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plupload↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-4566: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plupload↗2016-05-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2016-4566: wordpress - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plupload.flash.swf in Plupload befor...↗2016
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4566 CVE-2016-4567 wordpress: 4.5.2 Security Release↗2016-05-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4566 CVE-2016-4567 wordpress: 4.5.2 Security Release [epel-all]↗2016-05-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4566 CVE-2016-4567 wordpress: 4.5.2 Security Release [fedora-all]↗2016-05-09
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