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CVE-2016-6634

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the network settings page in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• WordPress: through 4.4.4

References

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92390
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=4.5
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8474
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92390
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=4.5
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8474

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