CVE-2016-10960

HIGH 8.8CVE-2016-10960 · Published 16/09/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-10960 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting wsecure (joomlaserviceprovider).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.7%, higher than 95.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.4 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wsecure joomlaserviceprovider	`< 2.4`	`2.4`

The wsecure plugin before 2.4 for WordPress has remote code execution via shell metacharacters in the wsecure-config.php publish parameter.

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