CVE-2017-5492 — Cross-Site Request Forgery in Wordpress

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery4 documents4 sources

Severity

8.8HIGHNVD

EPSS

0.5%

top 32.61%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Wordpress Debian Wordpress

Timeline

PublishedJan 15

Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

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-vhg8-r42v-3qpv: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4↗2022-05-17

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OSV

CVE-2017-5492: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4↗2017-01-15

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📋Vendor Advisories

Debian

CVE-2017-5492: wordpress - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibil...↗2017

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