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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 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.

Published

2017-01-15T02:59:03.033

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-352

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	≤ 4.7	Yes

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591 ([email protected])
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733 Patch ([email protected])
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8720 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8720 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)