Vulnerability CVE-2016-4566
Published: 2016-05-21   Modified: 2016-05-22

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 
Plupload -> Plupload 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2
http://www.plupload.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=28690
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37382/
https://gist.github.com/cure53/09a81530a44f6b8173f545accc9ed07e
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8489
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