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CVE-2017-1001000

UNKNOWN
Published 2017-04-03T01:00:00
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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.

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WordPress Vulnerability

Identified and analyzed by Wordfence

Software Type

Core

Patch Status

Patched

Published

January 26, 2017

Software Details

Software Name

WordPress

Software Slug

wordpress

Affected Versions

[*, 3.7) 4.3 - 4.3.7 4.4 - 4.4.6 4.5 - 4.5.5 4.6 - 4.6.2 4.7 - 4.7.1 3.7 - 3.7.17 3.8 - 3.8.17 3.9 - 3.9.15 4.0 - 4.0.14 4.1 - 4.1.14 4.2 - 4.2.11

Patched Versions

3.7.18 3.8.18 3.9.16 4.0.15 4.1.15 4.2.12 4.3.8 4.4.7 4.5.6 4.6.3 4.7.2

Remediation

Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 3.7.18, 3.8.18, 3.9.16, 4.0.15, 4.1.15, 4.2.12, 4.3.8, 4.4.7, 4.5.6, 4.6.3, 4.7.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2481f37b-a220-435d-9b43-6e7c5f42034f?source=api-prod

© Defiant Inc. Data provided by Wordfence.

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-qm68-r9p4-ghhx

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1001000
WEB https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e357195ce303017d517aff944644a7a1232926f7
WEB https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html
WEB https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/02/wordpress-web-api-vulnerability.html
WEB https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2
WEB https://gist.github.com/leonjza/2244eb15510a0687ed93160c623762ab
WEB https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/02/01/disclosure-of-additional-security-fix-in-wordpress-4-7-2
WEB https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release
WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/10/16
WEB http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037731

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 13, 2022, Modified: April 20, 2025

References

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/02/01/disclosure-of-additional-security-fix-in-wordpress-4-7-2/
https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/02/wordpress-web-api-vulnerability.html
https://gist.github.com/leonjza/2244eb15510a0687ed93160c623762ab
https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e357195ce303017d517aff944644a7a1232926f7
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/10/16
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037731
Published: 2017-04-03T01:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-05T22:00:41.671Z
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