FKIE_CVE-2016-4566

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-22 01:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:47
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.plupload.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=28690Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37382/Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://gist.github.com/cure53/09a81530a44f6b8173f545accc9ed07eThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8489Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.plupload.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=28690Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37382/Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gist.github.com/cure53/09a81530a44f6b8173f545accc9ed07eThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8489Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wordpress wordpress *
plupload plupload *
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