PT-2017-16616 · Debian+1 · Debian+1

Published 2017-01-30 · Updated 2019-03-19 · CVE-2017-5612

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.7.2 debian linux (affected versions not specified)

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This is due to a crafted excerpt in the posts list table.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 4.7.2, update to version 4.7.2 or later to resolve the issue. For debian linux, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-5612

DLA-813-1

DSA-3779-1

Affected Products

Debian

Wordpress

References · 31

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/4482f9207027de8f36630737ae085110896ea849 · Patch
• https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5610 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5612 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5612 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5491 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5612 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5611 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5492 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3779-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3779-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5612 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5490 · Security Note