Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-4567

Title: Wordpress Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-4567.

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date May 22, 2016
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
4.15%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-4567: 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."

Impacted Vendors

W
wordpress 1
M
mediaelementjs 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818 https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37371 https://gist.github.com/cure53/df34ea68c26441f3ae98f821ba1feb9c https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/blob/master/changelog.md https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8488 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818 https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37371 https://gist.github.com/cure53/df34ea68c26441f3ae98f821ba1feb9c https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/blob/master/changelog.md https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8488
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-4567 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.