CVE-2017-5492
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,…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.91%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.91% probability · 80th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.9% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733Patch
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8720
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95407
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037591
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733Patch
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8720
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.