CVE-2016-1564

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) stylesheet name or (2) template name to wp-admin/customize.php.

Affected products

WordPress: through 4.4.0

References

http://twitter.com/brutelogic/statuses/685105483397619713
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3444
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/4
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034622
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4.1
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36185
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/01/wordpress-4-4-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8358
http://twitter.com/brutelogic/statuses/685105483397619713
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3444
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/4
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034622

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