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WordPress 4.4-4.8.1 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in oEmbed

Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the oEmbed discovery. Reported by xknown of the WordPress Security Team.

Affects WordPress

4.4
Fixed in version 4.4.11
4.4.1
Fixed in version 4.4.11
4.4.2
Fixed in version 4.4.11
4.5
Fixed in version 4.5.10
4.5.1
Fixed in version 4.5.10
4.4.3
Fixed in version 4.4.11
4.5.2
Fixed in version 4.5.10
4.5.3
Fixed in version 4.5.10
4.4.4
Fixed in version 4.4.11
4.6
Fixed in version 4.6.7

References

CVE
CVE-2017-14724
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41448

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Submitter

alykode

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
d1bb1404-ebdc-4bfd-9cae-d728e53c66e2

Timeline

Publicly Published

2017-09-19 (about 5 years ago)

Added

2017-09-25 (about 5 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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