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CVE-2019-17675
WordPress before 5.2.4 does not properly consider type confusion during validation of the referer in the admin pages, possibly leading to…
High8.8EPSS 2.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9913 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46477 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b183fd1cca0b44a92f0264823dd9f22d2fd8b8d0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20191105 [SECURITY] [DLA 1980-1] wordpress security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20200108 [SECURITY] [DSA 4599-1] wordpress security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-4599 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- DSA-4677 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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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