CVE-2017-6814 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.4%
top 14.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WordpressDebian WordpressDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedMar 12
Latest updateMay 14

Description

In WordPress before 4.7.3, there is authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Media File Metadata. This is demonstrated by both (1) mishandling of the playlist shortcode in the wp_playlist_shortcode function in wp-includes/media.php and (2) mishandling of meta information in the renderTracks function in wp-includes/js/mediaelement/wp-playlist.js.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.7.3+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.7.3+dfsg-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

Patches

Patch: codex.wordpress.org ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-4h7x-7f94-8hcj: In WordPress before 4↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-6814: In WordPress before 4↗2017-03-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-6814: wordpress - In WordPress before 4.7.3, there is authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9075 binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in function _bfd_archive_64_bit_slurp_armap in archive64.c↗2019-02-25
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