Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in WordPress - CVE-2017-5492
Published: January 17, 2017 / Updated: January 17, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU4861
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5492
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of the HTTP request origin within "wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php" and "wp-admin/widgets.php" scripts. A remote attacker can create a specially specially crafted web page, trick the authenticated victim into visiting it, perform cross-site request forgery attack and hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that perform a widgets-access action.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to bypass authentication.
Affected software
WordPress
Arch Linux
Arch Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5492
Update to version 4.7.1