PT-2016-6705

CVE-2016-5837

Published

2016-06-29

Updated

2016-11-30

CVSS 3.1

7.5

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.5.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and remove a category attribute from a post.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.5.3, update to version 4.5.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Researchers

Vendors

Affected products

Related identifiers

DLA-568-1

DSA-3639-1

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