Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6634",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-6634",
    "summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the network settings page in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-6634",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        }
      ],
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              "repo": "https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress",
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                        "last_affected": "4.4.4"
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              }
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          ],
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            "4.4.4"
          ],
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          }
        },
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop",
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                {
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                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "04226e561622a8dbf2de0cc8e0cafcb576b64e03"
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              ],
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                      {
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                      {
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                      }
                    ],
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                  }
                ]
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          ],
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            "4.4.4"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6634.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:18.705154733Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=4.5",
        "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8474"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-6634",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429840,
  "published_at": "2016-08-07T16:59:15.77+00:00"
}