CVE-2016-1564
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) stylesheet name or (2) template name to wp-admin/customize.php.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.4.1+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.4.1+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.4.1+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.4.1+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.4.1+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | wordpress | {"endIncluding":"4.4.0"} | |
References
- http://twitter.com/brutelogic/statuses/685105483397619713
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3444
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/4
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034622
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4.1
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36185
- https://wordpress.org/news/2016/01/wordpress-4-4-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8358
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1564
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.