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WordPress Vulnerabilities

WordPress 3.6.0-4.7.2 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Media File Metadata

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
Fixed in version 3.8.19
3.8
Fixed in version 3.8.19
3.7.1
Fixed in version 3.7.19
3.6
Fixed in version 4.7.3
3.6.1
Fixed in version 4.7.3
3.9
Fixed in version 3.9.17
3.9.1
Fixed in version 3.9.17
3.7
Fixed in version 3.7.19
3.8.2
Fixed in version 3.8.19
3.8.3
Fixed in version 3.8.19

References

CVE
CVE-2017-6814
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/03/wordpress-4-7-3-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/28f838ca3ee205b6f39cd2bf23eb4e5f52796bd7
URL
https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/wordpress_audio_playlist_functionality_is_affected_by_cross_site_scripting.html
URL
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/563

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Submitter

ethicalhack3r

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
2c5632d8-4d40-4099-9e8f-23afde51b56e

Timeline

Publicly Published

2017-03-06 (about 5 years ago)

Added

2017-03-07 (about 5 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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