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Wordpress: CVE-2017-9064: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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Wordpress: CVE-2017-9064: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/30/2017
Modified
05/23/2019

Description

In WordPress before 4.7.5, a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in the filesystem credentials dialog because a nonce is not required for updating credentials.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_7_5

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