CVE-2019-17675
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8 · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
8.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
WordPress before 5.2.4 does not properly consider type confusion during validation of the referer in the admin pages, possibly leading to CSRF.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/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://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46477 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46477Patch
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b183fd1cca0b44a92f0264823dd9f22d2fd8b8d0Patch
- https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/Advisory
- https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9913Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599Advisory