CVE-2017-5492

High

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that perform a widgets-access action, related to wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php and wp-admin/widgets.php.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability80. percentile1.9%
ProductWordpress
PublishedJan 15, 2017
First seenJan 15, 2017

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