CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1001000
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
The register_routes function in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in the REST API in WordPress 4.7.x before 4.7.2 does not require an integer identifier, which allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary pages via a request for wp-json/wp/v2/posts followed by a numeric value and a non-numeric value, as demonstrated by the wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123?id=123helloworld URI.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress 4.7
• wordpress wordpress 4.7.1
• wordpress wordpress 4.7.2
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/10/16 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037731 www.securitytracker.com
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html blog.sucuri.net
- https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/02/wordpress-web-api-vulnerability.html blogs.akamai.com
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2 codex.wordpress.org
- https://gist.github.com/leonjza/2244eb15510a0687ed93160c623762ab gist.github.com
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e357195ce303017d517aff944644a7a1232926f7 github.com
- https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/02/01/disclosure-of-additional-security-fix-in-wordpress-4-7-2/ make.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/ wordpress.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/10/16 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037731 www.securitytracker.com
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html blog.sucuri.net
- https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/02/wordpress-web-api-vulnerability.html blogs.akamai.com
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2 codex.wordpress.org
- https://gist.github.com/leonjza/2244eb15510a0687ed93160c623762ab gist.github.com
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e357195ce303017d517aff944644a7a1232926f7 github.com
- https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/02/01/disclosure-of-additional-security-fix-in-wordpress-4-7-2/ make.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/ wordpress.org