PT-2019-8589 · WordPress+1 · Wordpress+1

Published 2019-05-22 · Updated 2019-05-27 · CVE-2017-6514

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress version 4.7.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a "/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=" request. This is related to the handling of post authors and the "author name" substring.

Recommendations For WordPress version 4.7.2, consider restricting access to the /wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed endpoint until a fix is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the "author name" substring in requests to this endpoint.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-6514

Affected Products

Debian

Wordpress

References · 14

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6514 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6514 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6514 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6514 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6514 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6514 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6514 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6514 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/108459 · Note
• https://packages.debian.org/src:wordpress · Note
• ❌ https://github.com/CFSECURITE/wordpress · Note, Deleted
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6514 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180612235401/https://github.com/CFSECURITE/wordpress · Note