Security advisory

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  "id": "4e2afcc08357d7169e69dca3ed2433d6e1eeae527471e21084c7a03a40f7b458",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5835",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-5835",
    "summary": "WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive revision-history information by leveraging the ability to read a post, related to wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php and wp-admin/revision.php.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-5835",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "id": "CVE-2016-5835",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-5835"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
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                },
                {
                  "fixed": "a2904cc3092c391ac7027bc87f7806953d1a25a1"
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              ],
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        },
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
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                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
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                      {
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                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.5.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5835.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:34.003513054Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8519",
        "https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.3",
        "https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/a2904cc3092c391ac7027bc87f7806953d1a25a1",
        "https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-5835",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441325,
  "published_at": "2016-06-29T14:10:06.96+00:00"
}