CVE-2017-5488 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WordpressDebian Wordpress
Timeline
PublishedJan 15
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-admin/update-core.php in WordPress before 4.7.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) name or (2) version header of a plugin.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.7.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.7.1+dfsg-1+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-q9q8-86p8-22rj: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-admin/update-core↗2022-05-17
▶
OSV
CVE-2017-5488: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-admin/update-core↗2017-01-15
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-5488: wordpress - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-admin/update-core.php ...↗2017
▶
CVE-2017-5488 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress | cvebase