CVE-2019-17675

high

Description

WordPress before 5.2.4 does not properly consider type confusion during validation of the referer in the admin pages, possibly leading to CSRF.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9913

https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00000.html

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b183fd1cca0b44a92f0264823dd9f22d2fd8b8d0

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46477

https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-17

Updated: 2023-02-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High