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CVE-2016-6634

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the network settings page in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Published

2016-08-07T16:59:15.770

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.1 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	≤ 4.4.4	Yes

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5 Patch, Release Notes ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92390 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=4.5 Release Notes ([email protected])
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8474 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5 Patch, Release Notes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92390 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=4.5 Release Notes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8474 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)