PT-2018-17139 · John Dyer+1 · Mediaelement+1

Enguerran Gillier + 1 · Published 2018-01-18 · Updated 2018-02-01 · CVE-2018-5776

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress versions prior to 4.9.2

Description: The issue concerns a cross-site scripting (XSS) problem in the Flash fallback files in MediaElement, located under wp-includes/js/mediaelement.

Recommendations: For WordPress versions prior to 4.9.2, update to version 4.9.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-5776

Affected Products

Mediaelement

Wordpress

References · 12

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/3fe9cb61ee71fcfadb5e002399296fcc1198d850 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5776 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5776 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5776 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/news/2018/01/wordpress-4-9-2-security-and-maintenance-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5776 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5776 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5776 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5776 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9006 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5776 · Note