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Wordpress: CVE-2017-5492: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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Wordpress: CVE-2017-5492: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/14/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/16/2017
Modified
05/23/2019

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that perform a widgets-access action, related to wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php and wp-admin/widgets.php.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_7_1

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