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DSA-3997-1
No affected components available
wordpress - security update
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
The exploit probability is low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
- CVE-2017-14718
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress was susceptible to a Cross-Site Scripting attack in the link modal via a javascript: or data: URL.
UpstreamEPSS 2.5% - CVE-2017-14719
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack during unzip operations in the ZipArchive and PclZip components.
UpstreamEPSS 14.2% - CVE-2017-14720
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress allowed a Cross-Site scripting attack in the template list view via a crafted template name.
UpstreamEPSS 2.5% - CVE-2017-14721
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress allowed Cross-Site scripting in the plugin editor via a crafted plugin name.
UpstreamEPSS 2.5% - CVE-2017-14722
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress allowed a Directory Traversal attack in the Customizer component via a crafted theme filename.
UpstreamEPSS 8.3% - CVE-2017-14723
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress mishandled % characters and additional placeholder values in $wpdb->prepare, and thus did not properly address the possibility of plugins and themes enabling SQL injection attacks.
UpstreamEPSS 7.0% - CVE-2017-14725
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress was susceptible to an open redirect attack in wp-admin/edit-tag-form.php and wp-admin/user-edit.php.
UpstreamEPSS 2.3% - CVE-2017-14726
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress was vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack via shortcodes in the TinyMCE visual editor.
UpstreamEPSS 2.8% - CVE-2017-14990
WordPress 4.8.2 stores cleartext wp_signups.activation_key values (but stores the analogous wp_users.user_activation_key values as hashes), which might make it easier for remote attackers to hijack unactivated user accounts by leveraging database read access (such as access gained through an unspecified SQL injection vulnerability).
UpstreamEPSS 2.4% - EUVD-2017-6215Upstream
- EUVD-2017-6216Upstream
- EUVD-2017-6217Upstream
- EUVD-2017-6218Upstream
- EUVD-2017-6219Upstream
- EUVD-2017-6220Upstream
- EUVD-2017-6222Upstream
- EUVD-2017-6223Upstream
- EUVD-2017-6466Upstream
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