PT-2017-18681 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2017-05-18 · Updated 2019-03-15 · CVE-2017-9065

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.7.5

Description The issue is related to a lack of capability checks for post meta data in the XML-RPC API.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.7.5, update to version 4.7.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9065

DLA-975-1

DSA-3870-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 28

• 🔥 https://github.com/cyberheartmi9/CVE-2017-8295 · Exploit
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e88a48a066ab2200ce3091b131d43e2fab2460a4 · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9065 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3870-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9062 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8295 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/news/2017/05/wordpress-4-7-5 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9061 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9063 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9064 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9065 · Security Note
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8817 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9065 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9065 · Vendor Advisory