Cross-site scripting in WordPress - CVE-2017-5612
Published: January 30, 2017 / Updated: September 14, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU5508
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5612
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.
An input validation error exists in "wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php" script in the posts list table. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
WordPress
Fedora
wordpress
Fedora
wordpress
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5612
Update to version 4.7.2
wordpress - addressed in versions 4.7.2-1.el5, 4.7.2-1.el6, 4.7.2-1.el7, 4.7.2-1.fc24, 4.7.2-1.fc25