4.8
MEDIUM
CVE-2016-7168
WordPress Media Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the media_handle_upload function in wp-admin/includes/media.php in WordPress before 4.6.1 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by tricking an administrator into uploading an image file that has a crafted filename.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 5, 2017, 2:59 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 2:57 a.m.

Source :

cve@mitre.org

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.7

Exploitability Score :

1.7
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2016-7168 has a 23 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2016-7168 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Wordpress wordpress
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2016-7168.

URL Resource
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/19 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/24 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92841 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.6.1 Patch
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/c9e60dab176635d4bfaaf431c0ea891e4726d6e0 Patch
https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/persistent_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_wordpress_due_to_unsafe_processing_of_file_names.html Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Patch Vendor Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8615
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/19 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/24 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92841 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.6.1 Patch
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/c9e60dab176635d4bfaaf431c0ea891e4726d6e0 Patch
https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/persistent_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_wordpress_due_to_unsafe_processing_of_file_names.html Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Patch Vendor Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8615

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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alem-m/WordPressVSKali

Pen-testing - Finding, analyzing, recreating, and documenting five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress

Updated: 2 years, 2 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 28, 2022, 2:05 a.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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KushanSingh/Codepath-Project7

Contains the assignment for codepath week 7.

Updated: 2 years, 3 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 28, 2022, 1:54 a.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.
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Afetter618/WordPress-PenTest

WordPress Pen Testing

Updated: 8 months ago
3 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 23, 2022, 8:42 p.m. This repo has been linked 100 different CVEs too.
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Japluas93/WordPress-Exploits-Project

None

Updated: 2 years, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 16, 2022, 5:03 a.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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krushang598/Cybersecurity-Week-7-and-8

None

Updated: 4 years, 9 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 11, 2020, 7:14 a.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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yifengjin89/Web-Security-Weeks-7-8-Project-WordPress-vs.-Kali

Weeks 7 & 8 Project: WordPress vs. Kali

Updated: 4 years, 9 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 11, 2020, 1:05 a.m. This repo has been linked 4 different CVEs too.
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lindaerin/wordpress-pentesting

wordpress pentesting vulnerabilities affecting old version

Updated: 3 years, 5 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 11, 2019, 11:48 p.m. This repo has been linked 4 different CVEs too.
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cakesjams/CodePath-Weeks-8-and-9

None

Updated: 5 years, 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 4, 2019, 9:33 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.
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cflor510/Wordpress-

Codepath week 7-8

Updated: 4 years, 10 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 18, 2019, 10:35 p.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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Snoriega1/Codepath-week-7-and-8

Homework assignment for WordPress Pen testing assignment

Updated: 4 years, 7 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 18, 2019, 10:34 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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harrystaley/TAMUSA_CSCI4349_Week9_Honeypot

Documentation for TAMUSA CSCI 4349.

penetration-testing

Python Shell PHP Batchfile CSS JavaScript HTML Smarty Pascal C++

Updated: 2 years ago
3 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Nov. 16, 2018, 4:57 a.m. This repo has been linked 24 different CVEs too.
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deltastrikeop/CS7

None

Updated: 6 years, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 21, 2018, 5:37 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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mnmr1996/web-security

None

Updated: 6 years, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 9, 2018, 6:52 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.
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breindy/Week7-WordPress-Pentesting

CodePath University's Web Security - Week 7: WordPress Pentesting (Spring 2018)

Updated: 6 years, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 4, 2018, 6:30 a.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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zando1996/Week-7-Lab-CodePath

Week 7 Lab Project

Updated: 7 years ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 3, 2018, 7:37 p.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2016-7168 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2016-7168 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/19
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/24
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92841
    Added Reference https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.6.1
    Added Reference https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/c9e60dab176635d4bfaaf431c0ea891e4726d6e0
    Added Reference https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/persistent_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_wordpress_due_to_unsafe_processing_of_file_names.html
    Added Reference https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
    Added Reference https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8615
  • CVE Modified by cve@mitre.org

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by cve@mitre.org

    Nov. 04, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by cve@mitre.org

    Jul. 17, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8615 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by nvd@nist.gov

    Jan. 11, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/24 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/24 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/19 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/19 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92841 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92841 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
  • CVE Modified by cve@mitre.org

    Jan. 07, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92841 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/24 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/08/19 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by nvd@nist.gov

    Jan. 05, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ No Types Assigned https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Vendor Advisory, Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/persistent_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_wordpress_due_to_unsafe_processing_of_file_names.html No Types Assigned https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/persistent_cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_wordpress_due_to_unsafe_processing_of_file_names.html Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.6.1 No Types Assigned https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.6.1 Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/c9e60dab176635d4bfaaf431c0ea891e4726d6e0 No Types Assigned https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/c9e60dab176635d4bfaaf431c0ea891e4726d6e0 Patch
    Added CWE CWE-79
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2016-7168 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2016-7168 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.58 }} -1.84%

score

0.66189

percentile

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