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CVE-2016-5835

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive revision-history information by leveraging the ability to read a post, related to wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php and wp-admin/revision.php.

Affected products

• WordPress: through 4.5.2

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91366
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036163
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.3
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/a2904cc3092c391ac7027bc87f7806953d1a25a1
• https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8519
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3639
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91366
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036163
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.3
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/a2904cc3092c391ac7027bc87f7806953d1a25a1

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