SB2017030614 - Cross-site request forgery in WordPress WordPress
Published: March 6, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017030614
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6819)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by incorrect validation of the request origin within "Press This" functionality (wp-admin/includes/class-wp-press-this.php). A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the authenticated WordPress user into visiting and trigger the web application to consume excessive server resources.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.