Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.4.1 allow remote attackers to…

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) stylesheet name or (2) template name to wp-admin/customize.php.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 1034622 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.4.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-3444 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20160108 Re: CVE Request: WordPress: cross-site scripting vulnerability fixed in new 4.4.1 release (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://twitter.com/brutelogic/statuses/685105483397619713 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8358 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://wordpress.org/news/2016/01/wordpress-4-4-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36185 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 23:02 UTC.