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ghsa-ffr7-33wh-7g9r

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 00:27

Modified

2025-04-12 13:07

Severity ?

4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the media_handle_upload function in wp-admin/includes/media.php in WordPress before 4.6.1 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by tricking an administrator into uploading an image file that has a crafted filename.

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CVE-2016-7168 (GCVE-0-2016-7168)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-01-05 02:00

Modified

2024-08-06 01:50

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

References

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	https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/persistent_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_wordpress_due_to_unsafe_processing_of_file_names.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8615	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/24	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92841	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.6.1	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/19	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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