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CVE-2017-5492

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Date: January 14, 2017

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.

Language: PHP

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Related Resources (12)

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8720
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5492
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5492
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5492
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-5492

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CWE-352

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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