CVE-2017-5490 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting4 documents4 sources

Severity

6.1MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

1.3%

top 20.19%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Wordpress Debian Wordpress

Timeline

PublishedJan 15

Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted directory name of a theme, related to wp-admin/includes/class-theme-installer-skin.php.

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

▶NVDwordpress/wordpress4.7

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-p45m-x7rq-w3r2: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme↗2022-05-17

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OSV

CVE-2017-5490: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme↗2017-01-15

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📋Vendor Advisories

Debian

CVE-2017-5490: wordpress - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionalit...↗2017

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