vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-4566: wordpress -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 22, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-wordpress
Title
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