WordPress Vulnerabilities

WordPress 3.4-4.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Theme Name fallback

Affects WordPress

3.8.1

Fixed in version 3.8.17

3.8

Fixed in version 3.8.17

3.7.1

Fixed in version 3.7.17

3.6

Fixed in version 4.7.1

3.5.2

Fixed in version 4.7.1

3.5.1

Fixed in version 4.7.1

3.5

Fixed in version 4.7.1

3.4.2

Fixed in version 4.7.1

3.4.1

Fixed in version 4.7.1

3.4

Fixed in version 4.7.1

References

CVE

CVE-2017-5490

URL

https://www.mehmetince.net/low-severity-wordpress/

URL

https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/

URL

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/ce7fb2934dd111e6353784852de8aea2a938b359

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10

A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE

CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Submitter

Mehmet Ince

Submitter website

https://pentest.blog

Submitter twitter

mdisec

Verified

WPVDB ID

6737b4a2-080c-454a-a16e-7fc59824c659

Timeline

Publicly Published

2017-01-11 (about 6 years ago)

Added

2017-01-12 (about 6 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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