GHSA-277w-qpxr-2549MediumCVSS 6.1
MediaElement Vulnerable to Reflected XSS
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in flash/FlashMediaElement.swf in MediaElement.js before 2.21.0, as used in WordPress before 4.5.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an obfuscated form of the jsinitfunction parameter, as demonstrated by "jsinitfunctio%gn."
🎯 Affected products3
- npm/mediaelement:< 2.11.1
- composer/contao-components/mediaelement:>= 2.14.2, < 2.21.1
- composer/contao/core:>= 3.0.0, < 3.5.15
🔗 References (18)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4567
- https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37371
- https://gist.github.com/cure53/df34ea68c26441f3ae98f821ba1feb9c
- https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/blob/master/changelog.md
- https://wordpress.org/news/2016/05/wordpress-4-5-2/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8488
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818
- https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e
- https://contao.org/en/news/contao-3_5_15.html
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao-components/mediaelement/CVE-2016-4567.yaml
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao/core/CVE-2016-4567.yaml
- https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement/blob/b992ccf5f0c04a207d98bbb0868420751a61ec90/changelog.md?plain=1#L1024
- https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement/blob/master/changelog.md
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170205142412/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035818
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-277w-qpxr-2549