CVE-2016-5838 — Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard in Wordpress

CWE-255CWE-358 — Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard11 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WordpressDebian Wordpress
Timeline
PublishedJun 29
Latest updateMay 17

Description

WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to bypass intended password-change restrictions by leveraging knowledge of a cookie.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.5.3+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.5.3+dfsg-1+3

Patches

Patch: wordpress.org ↗Patch: wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-q59q-2whf-h2x9: WordPress before 4↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-5838: WordPress before 4↗2016-06-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Red Hat
OpenJDK: missing type safety checks for MethodHandle calls across class loaders, incorrect CVE-2013-5838 fix (Hotspot, 8151666)↗2016-03-23
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Debian
CVE-2016-5838: wordpress - WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to bypass intended password-chang...↗2016
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Qualys
Oracle out-of-band release for Java 0-day | Qualys↗2016-03-24
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Qualys
Oracle out-of-band release for Java 0-day | Qualys↗2016-03-24
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5832 CVE-2016-5833 CVE-2016-5834 CVE-2016-5835 CVE-2016-5836 CVE-2016-5837 CVE-2016-5838 CVE-2016-5839 wordpress: 4.5.3 Security Release↗2016-06-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5832 CVE-2016-5833 CVE-2016-5834 CVE-2016-5835 CVE-2016-5836 CVE-2016-5837 CVE-2016-5838 CVE-2016-5839 wordpress: 4.5.3 Security Release [fedora-all]↗2016-06-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5832 CVE-2016-5833 CVE-2016-5834 CVE-2016-5835 CVE-2016-5836 CVE-2016-5837 CVE-2016-5838 CVE-2016-5839 wordpress: 4.5.3 Security Release [epel-all]↗2016-06-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-0636 OpenJDK: missing type safety checks for MethodHandle calls across class loaders, incorrect CVE-2013-5838 fix (Hotspot, 8151666)↗2016-03-23
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CVE-2016-5838 — Debian Wordpress vulnerability | cvebase