CVE-2016-5838

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5838

Import Source

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5838

Downstream

Published

2016-06-29T14:10:09.867Z

Modified

2026-03-10T14:07:54.203110Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to bypass intended password-change restrictions by leveraging knowledge of a cookie.

References

Affected packages

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Events

Introduced

Last affected

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.2"
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5838.json"