CVE-2016-4567
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4567
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4567.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4567
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-05-22T01:59:31Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-17T11:54:40Z
- Severity
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- 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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."
- References
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818
- https://gist.github.com/cure53/df34ea68c26441f3ae98f821ba1feb9c
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8488
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37371
- 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/