CVE-2017-9064
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8 · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
8.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
In WordPress before 4.7.5, a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in the filesystem credentials dialog because a nonce is not required for updating credentials.
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://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.5 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.5Patch
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/38347d7c580be4cdd8476e4bbc653d5c79ed9b67Patch
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/05/wordpress-4-7-5/Patch
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8818Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3870Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98509Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038520Advisory