| Name | CVE-2016-5836 |
| Description | The oEmbed protocol implementation in WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1452-1, DLA-633-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wordpress (PTS) | jessie | 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u17 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 4.1.29+dfsg-0+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch | 4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster, buster (security) | 5.0.4+dfsg1-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye, sid | 5.3.2+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/
Upstream ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36767
Fixed by (Branch 4.4): https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37798