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CVE-2016-4812

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• 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: 2016-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Markdown on Save Improved plugin before 2.5.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Markdown On Saved Improved Project Markdown On Saved Improved: through 2.5

References

• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN26026353/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000071
• https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/markdown-on-save-improved/changelog/
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN26026353/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000071
• https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/markdown-on-save-improved/changelog/

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