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WordPress 3.7-4.9.1 - MediaElement Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in the Flash fallback files in MediaElement, a library that is included with WordPress. Because the Flash files are no longer needed for most use cases, they have been removed from WordPress.

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
Fixed in version 3.8.25
3.8
Fixed in version 3.8.25
3.7.1
Fixed in version 3.7.25
3.9
Fixed in version 3.9.23
3.9.1
Fixed in version 3.9.23
3.7
Fixed in version 3.7.25
3.8.2
Fixed in version 3.8.25
3.8.3
Fixed in version 3.8.25
3.9.2
Fixed in version 3.9.23
4.0
Fixed in version 4.0.22

References

CVE
CVE-2018-5776
CVE
CVE-2016-9263
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/3fe9cb61ee71fcfadb5e002399296fcc1198d850
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/01/wordpress-4-9-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42720

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Submitter

ethicalhack3r

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
6ac45244-9f09-4e9c-92f3-f339d450fe72

Timeline

Publicly Published

2018-01-17 (about 5 years ago)

Added

2018-01-17 (about 5 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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