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CVE-2016-5837

WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and remove a category attribute from a post via unspecified vectors.

Published

2016-06-29T14:10:08.850

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	≤ 4.5.2	Yes

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91365 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036163 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.3 Patch ([email protected])
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/ Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8520 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91365 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036163 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.3 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/ Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8520 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)