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

CVSS: 8.8v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-5492DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5492
Published 15-01-2017Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-5492 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 1.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79.5% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 3.7.17.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.91%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DLA-813-1DSA-3779-1

Timeline

  1. 15-01-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.91%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

80%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 1.90% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.91%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress< 3.7 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 3.7, ≤ 3.7.16 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 3.8, ≤ 3.8.16 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 3.9, ≤ 3.9.14 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 4.0, ≤ 4.0.13 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 4.1, ≤ 4.1.13 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 4.2, ≤ 4.2.10 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 4.3, ≤ 4.3.6 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 4.4, ≤ 4.4.5 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 4.5, ≤ 4.5.4 (fixed in 3.7.17) | ≥ 4.6, ≤ 4.6.1 (fixed in 3.7.17) | 4.7 (fixed in 3.7.17)
  • wordpress≤ 4.7
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 4.7.1+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • wordpressAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 4 products

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