Wordpress: CVE-2017-5488: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
01/14/2017
07/25/2018
05/16/2017
05/23/2019
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-admin/update-core.php in WordPress before 4.7.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) name or (2) version header of a plugin.
Solution(s)
- wordpress-upgrade-4_7_1
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