GHSA-277w-qpxr-2549
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Summary: MediaElement Vulnerable to Reflected XSS
Details: 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."
References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4567, https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e, https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement/commit/34834eef8ac830b9145df169ec22016a4350f06e, https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.2, https://contao.org/en/news/contao-3_5_15.html, https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37371, https://gist.github.com/cure53/df34ea68c26441f3ae98f821ba1feb9c, 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/johndyer/mediaelement/blob/master/changelog.md, 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://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
Affected packages
Package
Name: mediaelement
Purl: pkg:npm/mediaelement
Affected ranges
Type: SEMVER
Events:
