CVE-2016-4567
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
MediaElement Vulnerable to Reflected XSS
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Affected | — |
| forky | Affected | — |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | mediaelement | <2.11.1 | 2.11.1 |
| Packagist | contao-components/mediaelement | >=2.14.2,<2.21.1 | 2.21.1 |
| Packagist | contao/core | >=3.0.0,<3.5.15 | 3.5.15 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mediaelementjs | mediaelement.js | {"endIncluding":"2.20.1"} | |
| wordpress | wordpress | {"endIncluding":"4.5.1"} | |
References
- 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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4567
- https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e
- https://contao.org/en/news/contao-3_5_15.html
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao-components/mediaelement/CVE-2016-4567.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao/core/CVE-2016-4567.yaml
- https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement/blob/b992ccf5f0c04a207d98bbb0868420751a61ec90/changelog.md?plain=1#L1024
- https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement/blob/master/changelog.md
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170205142412/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818
- https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4567
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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