CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4567
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in flash/FlashMediaElement.as in MediaElement.js before 2.21.0, as used in WordPress before 4.5.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an obfuscated form of the jsinitfunction parameter, as demonstrated by "jsinitfunctio%gn."
Affected configurations
• mediaelementjs mediaelement.js (<= 2.20.1)
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.5.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37371 Patch
- https://gist.github.com/cure53/df34ea68c26441f3ae98f821ba1feb9c Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/blob/master/changelog.md Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8488 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37371 Patch
- https://gist.github.com/cure53/df34ea68c26441f3ae98f821ba1feb9c Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/blob/master/changelog.md Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8488 Third Party Advisory