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CVE-2017-5492
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-15T02:59:03.033 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:20:36.473

Summary

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.

Affected products

wordpress — wordpress

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References

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