CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5492
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that perform a widgets-access action, related to wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php and wp-admin/widgets.php.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591 www.securitytracker.com
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733 Patch
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8720 wpvulndb.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591 www.securitytracker.com
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733 Patch
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8720 wpvulndb.com