CVE-2017-5492: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to hijack…

PriorityP342high8.8CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.86%

77.1th percentile

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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 4.7.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 4.7.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 4.7	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.7.1+dfsg-1	4.7.1+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.7.1+dfsg-1	4.7.1+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.7.1+dfsg-1	4.7.1+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.7.1+dfsg-1	4.7.1+dfsg-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.08.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv8.8HIGH

vendor_debian8.8HIGH

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