High severity · published Jan 15, 2017
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…
8.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WO
WordPress · WordPress
through 4.7 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5492
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5492
www.debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407
www.securitytracker.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591
Release Notes
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1
Patch
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733
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