CVE-2016-4566
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
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.
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 | 4.5.2+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.5.2+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.5.2+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.5.2+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.5.2+dfsg-1 |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2
- http://www.plupload.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=28690
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37382/
- https://gist.github.com/cure53/09a81530a44f6b8173f545accc9ed07e
- https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8489
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4566
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.