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CVE-2017-5490

N/A

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted directory name of a theme, related to wp-admin/includes/class-theme-installer-skin.php.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published1/15/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

wordpress:wordpress

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95402(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591(cve@mitre.org)

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/ce7fb2934dd111e6353784852de8aea2a938b359(cve@mitre.org)

https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/(cve@mitre.org)

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8718(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.mehmetince.net/low-severity-wordpress/(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95402(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/ce7fb2934dd111e6353784852de8aea2a938b359(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8718(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.mehmetince.net/low-severity-wordpress/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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