CVE-2017-5492
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8 · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
8.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733Patch
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8720