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CVE-2016-5835

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5835 is a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting WordPress versions prior to 4.5.3. It allows unauthenticated remote attackers to obtain sensitive revision history information from posts, even without specific privileges, due to flaws in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php and wp-admin/revision.php. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a high impact on confidentiality with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0365 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

codex.wordpress.org / Version_4.5.3
Release Notes
github.com / WordPress/WordPress/commit/a2904cc3092c391ac7027bc87f7806953d1a25a1
wordpress.org / news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3
PatchVendor Advisory
wpvulndb.com / vulnerabilities/8519
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3639
securityfocus.com / bid/91366
securitytracker.com / id/1036163
Third Party Advisory