CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5838

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-06-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-06-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-255

Description

WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to bypass intended password-change restrictions by leveraging knowledge of a cookie.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.5.2)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References