CVE-2016-10983

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2016-10983 · Published 17/09/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-10983 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting ghost (ghost).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.5.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ghost ghost	`< 0.5.6`	`0.5.6`

The ghost plugin before 0.5.6 for WordPress has no access control for wp-admin/tools.php?ghostexport=true downloads of exported data.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 0.5.6

0.5.6

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