CVE-2016-5833

6.1 mediumEPSS 2.1%

Medium (6.1) in wordpress wordpress. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the column_title function in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-media-list-table.php in WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted attachment name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5834.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.1 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2016-06-29
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wordpress:wordpress

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91368
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036163
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.3
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/4372cdf45d0f49c74bbd4d60db7281de83e32648
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/

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