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.
Published: 2017-01-15
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-813-1 wordpress security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3779-1 wordpress security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-14596 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:04:14.395Z

Reserved: 2017-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-5492

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-15T02:59:03.033

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-5492

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