6.1
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-9061

Published: 18/05/2017 Updated: 15/03/2019
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: 386
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

In WordPress prior to 4.7.5, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists when attempting to upload very large files, because the error message does not properly restrict presentation of the filename.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #862816 wordpress: Six security bugs in wordpress 474 and earlier Package: src:wordpress; Maintainer for src:wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Reported by: Craig Small <csmall@debianorg> Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 11:57:06 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security, upstream Found in vers ...
Debian Bug report logs - #862053 wordpress: CVE-2017-8295 Package: wordpress; Maintainer for wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Source for wordpress is src:wordpress (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Markus Koschany <apo@debianorg> Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 19:57:02 UTC Severity: serious Tags: security, up ...
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool They would allow remote attackers to force password resets, and perform various cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 41+dfsg-1+deb8u14 For the upcoming stable (stretch) ...

Github Repositories

Cybersecurity-Week-7-Project-WordPress-vs-Kali Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting Time spent: 45 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 (XSS) ID: CVE-2015-5622 Summary: Vulnerability types: XSS Tested in version: 42 Fixed

Weeks 7 & 8 of CodePath Cybersecurity Write-Up Unit 7 Challenge 0: Install Vagrant Navigate to Path: C:\Users\esam5\WPDistillery on Windows Run vagrant up

Week-7-8 Time taken to complete the lab and the assignment: 4 hrs Lab Demo: Title: WordPress 25-46 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Image Filename Fixed in: 4210 procedure: When an image with a file name such as cengizhansahinsumofpwn<img src=a onerror=alert(documentcookie)>jpg is uploaded and viewed within WordPress the scri

Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting Time spent: 4 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 (XSS) in YouTube URL Embeds (CVE-2017-6817) Summary: Vulnerability types: XSS Tested in version: 42 Fixed in version: 4213 GIF Walk

Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress Pentesting Report WordPress 33-474 - Large File Upload Error XSS (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9061) Summary: Vulnerability types: XSS Tested in version: 42 Fixed in version: 4215 GIF Walkthrough: user-imagesgithubuserconten

Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting Time spent: 4 hours spent in total Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document three vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress Pentesting Report (Required) File Too Large XSS Summary: The media upload section in Wordpress does not properly sanitize the name of the uploaded media, causing accesses to it to run arbitrary jav

Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting Time spent: 24 hours spent in total Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document 3 vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress Pentesting Report 1 CVE-2017-9061 Summary: XSS via Large File Upload Error Vulnerability types: XSS Injection Tested in version: 420 Fixed in version: 4215 GIF Walkthrough: Found in file_size_

Project 7 - WordPress Pen Testing Time spent: 12 hours spent in total Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress Pen Testing Report 1 Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) ID: CVE-2015-5622 Summary: Vulnerability types:XSS Tested in version:42 Fixed in version:423 GIF Walkthrough:

example attacks on Wordpress

Cybersecurity-University-Week-7-Wordpress example attacks on Wordpress Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting Time spent: 10 hours spent in total Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress Pentesting Report WordPress 42 - Commenting XSS, CVE 2015-3440 Summary: This is a stored XSS attack affecting the comment system