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CVE-2017-5490
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before…
Medium6.1EPSS 2.4%
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- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers 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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (9)
- 95402 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-3779 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8718 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.mehmetince.net/low-severity-wordpress/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/ce7fb2934dd111e6353784852de8aea2a938b359 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170114 Re: CVE Request: Wordpress: 8 security issues in 4.7 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1037591 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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