PT-2017-9098 · WordPress · Wordpress

Cengiz Han Sahin · Published 2016-09-29 · Updated 2017-11-04 · CVE-2016-7168

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.6.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists due to a vulnerability in the media handle upload function. This could allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by tricking an administrator into uploading an image file with a crafted filename.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.6.1, update to version 4.6.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting image uploads to trusted administrators only until the update is applied.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7168

DLA-633-1

DSA-3681-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 26

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/c9e60dab176635d4bfaaf431c0ea891e4726d6e0 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7168 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7168 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3681-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6635 · Security Note
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.6.1 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6634 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7168 · Security Note