CVE-2016-7168 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting8 documents6 sources
Severity
4.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WordpressDebian Wordpress
Timeline
PublishedJan 5
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the media_handle_upload function in wp-admin/includes/media.php in WordPress before 4.6.1 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by tricking an administrator into uploading an image file that has a crafted filename.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 1.7 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.6.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.6.1+dfsg-1+3

Patches

Patch: codex.wordpress.org ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-ffr7-33wh-7g9r: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the media_handle_upload function in wp-admin/includes/media↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-7168: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the media_handle_upload function in wp-admin/includes/media↗2017-01-05
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💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 - Invalid Pointer Reference↗2016-09-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2016-7168: wordpress - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the media_handle_upload function in ...↗2016
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-7168 CVE-2016-7169 wordpress: two security issues fixed in 4.6.1↗2016-09-08
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-7168 CVE-2016-7169 wordpress: two security issues fixed in 4.6.1 [epel-all]↗2016-09-08
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-7168 CVE-2016-7169 wordpress: two security issues fixed in 4.6.1 [fedora-all]↗2016-09-08
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