gsd-2016-4567
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in flash/FlashMediaElement.as 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."
Aliases
Aliases



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      "lastModifiedDate": "2016-12-02T23:01Z",
      "publishedDate": "2016-05-22T01:59Z"
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}


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