WordPress oEmbed Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-5836)

WordPress oEmbed Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-5836)
WordPress oEmbed Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-5836)

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Affected Systems:

WordPress <= 4.5.2

Description:

CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2016-5836

WordPress is a blog platform developed in PHP.

A security vulnerability exists in the implementation of the oEmbed protocol in versions earlier than WordPress 4.5.3. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause DoS attacks.

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Suggestion:

Vendor patch:

WordPress
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.3

Https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/

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