Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU6590

Cross-site request forgery in WordPress - CVE-2017-9064

Published: May 17, 2017 / Updated: October 10, 2018

Vulnerability identifier: #VU6590

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9064

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 attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin in the filesystem credentials dialog. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and perform CSRF attack.

Affected software

WordPress
Debian Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9064

Update to version 4.7.5.

WordPress - update to 4.7.5

External References

https://wordpress.org/news/2017/05/wordpress-4-7-5/

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