Medium
Security advisory
The crayon-syntax-highlighter plugin before 2.8.4 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues via AJAX requests.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-10893
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The crayon-syntax-highlighter plugin before 2.8.4 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues via AJAX requests.
osv:CVE-2016-10893
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://github.com/aramk/crayon-syntax-highlighter/commit/7fdb2e6b4c65178b4ed01ff08a8a38afe5a5151e",
"https://github.com/aramk/crayon-syntax-highlighter/issues/347"
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"published_at": "2019-08-20T15:15:11.603+00:00"
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