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CVE-2016-10893

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The crayon-syntax-highlighter plugin before 2.8.4 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues via AJAX requests.

Affected products

• Aram Kocharyan Crayon Syntax Highlighter: before 2.8.4 — fixed in 2.8.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Aram Kocharyan Crayon Syntax Highlighter 2.8.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/aramk/crayon-syntax-highlighter/commit/7fdb2e6b4c65178b4ed01ff08a8a38afe5a5151e
• https://github.com/aramk/crayon-syntax-highlighter/issues/347
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/#developers
• https://github.com/aramk/crayon-syntax-highlighter/commit/7fdb2e6b4c65178b4ed01ff08a8a38afe5a5151e
• https://github.com/aramk/crayon-syntax-highlighter/issues/347
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/#developers

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