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CVE-2017-1001000
The register_routes function in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in the REST API in WordPress 4.7.x…
High7.5EPSS 84.9%
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- joshbressers
Description
The register_routes function in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in the REST API in WordPress 4.7.x before 4.7.2 does not require an integer identifier, which allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary pages via a request for wp-json/wp/v2/posts followed by a numeric value and a non-numeric value, as demonstrated by the wp-json/wp/v2/posts/123?id=123helloworld URI.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 84.9% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/02/01/disclosure-of-additional-security-fix-in-wordpress-4-7-2/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/02/wordpress-web-api-vulnerability.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://gist.github.com/leonjza/2244eb15510a0687ed93160c623762ab (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e357195ce303017d517aff944644a7a1232926f7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170210 Re: Asking for a CVE id for the WordPress Privilege Escalation vulnerability (4.7/4.7.1) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1037731 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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