CVE-2016-4812

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2016-4812 · Published 04/06/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-4812 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting markdown on saved improved (markdown on saved improved project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
markdown on saved improved markdown_on_saved_improved_project	`≤ 2.5`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Markdown on Save Improved plugin before 2.5.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN26026353/index.html · Vendor Advisory
jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000071 · Vendor Advisory
srd.wordpress.org/plugins/markdown-on-save-improved/changelog · Vendor Advisory

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