vulnerability

Wordpress: CVE-2017-6514: Information Exposure Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 22, 2019
Added
Mar 12, 2021
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

WordPress 4.7.2 mishandles listings of post authors, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (Path Disclosure) via a /wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url= request, related to the "author_name":" substring.

Solution

misc-no-solution-exists
Title
NEW

Explore Exposure Command

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