{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4567","details":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in flash/FlashMediaElement.as in MediaElement.js before 2.21.0, as used in WordPress before 4.5.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an obfuscated form of the jsinitfunction parameter, as demonstrated by \"jsinitfunctio%gn.\"","modified":"2026-05-20T16:03:19.052620844Z","published":"2016-05-22T01:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-4567"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4567"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37370"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/07/2"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4567"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mediaelement","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediaelement?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.15.1+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libjs-mediaelement","binary_version":"2.15.1+dfsg-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4567.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mediaelement","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediaelement?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.15.1+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libjs-mediaelement","binary_version":"2.15.1+dfsg-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4567.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mediaelement","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediaelement?arch=source&distro=focal"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.15.1+dfsg-1","2.15.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libjs-mediaelement","binary_version":"2.15.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4567.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mediaelement","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:22.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediaelement?arch=source&distro=jammy"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.15.1+dfsg-3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libjs-mediaelement","binary_version":"2.15.1+dfsg-3"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4567.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mediaelement","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:24.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediaelement?arch=source&distro=noble"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.15.1+dfsg-3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2.15.1+dfsg-3","binary_name":"libjs-mediaelement"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4567.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mediaelement","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:25.10","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediaelement?arch=source&distro=questing"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.15.1+dfsg-3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2.15.1+dfsg-3","binary_name":"libjs-mediaelement"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4567.json"}},{"package":{"name":"mediaelement","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediaelement?arch=source&distro=resolute"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.15.1+dfsg-3","2.15.1+dfsg-3build1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libjs-mediaelement","binary_version":"2.15.1+dfsg-3build1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4567.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}