4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-5490

Published: 15/01/2017 Updated: 04/11/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.1 | Impact Score: 2.7 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress prior to 4.7.1 allows remote malicious users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted directory name of a theme, related to wp-admin/includes/class-theme-installer-skin.php.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #852767 wordpress: 472 security release (CVE-2017-5610 CVE-2017-5611 CVE-2017-5612) Package: src:wordpress; Maintainer for src:wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:18:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed- ...
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in wordpress via theme name fallback ...

Github Repositories

Find, analyze, recreate, and document five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress, using wpscan in Kali linux.

Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting Time spent: 8 hours spent in total Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress Pentesting Report Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Image Filename Summary: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the media_handle_upload function in wp-admin/includes/mediaphp in