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WordPress Vulnerabilities

WordPress <= 5.2.3 - Admin Referrer Validation

Description

The fix changes the PHP equal identifier == to the identical identifier ===.

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
Fixed in version 3.8.31
3.8
Fixed in version 3.8.31
3.7.1
Fixed in version 3.7.31
3.9
Fixed in version 3.9.29
3.9.1
Fixed in version 3.9.29
3.7
Fixed in version 3.7.31
3.8.2
Fixed in version 3.8.31
3.8.3
Fixed in version 3.8.31
3.9.2
Fixed in version 3.9.29
4.0
Fixed in version 4.0.28

References

CVE
CVE-2019-17675
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b183fd1cca0b44a92f0264823dd9f22d2fd8b8d0
URL
https://blog.wpscan.com/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html

Classification

Type

CSRF

OWASP top 10
A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management
CWE
CWE-352

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Ben Bidner (WordPress Security Team)

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
715c00e3-5302-44ad-b914-131c162c3f71

Timeline

Publicly Published

2019-10-14 (about 3 years ago)

Added

2019-10-15 (about 3 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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