CVE-2016-10953

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2016-10953 · Published 13/09/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-10953 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting headway (headwaythemes).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.76%, higher than 55.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.8.9 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
headway headwaythemes	`< 3.8.9`	`3.8.9`

The Headway theme before 3.8.9 for WordPress has XSS via the license key field.

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