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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of WordPress Core.

Impacted products: Debian, WordPress Core.

Severity: 2/4.

Creation date: 12/01/2017.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

Several vulnerabilities were announced in WordPress Core.

An attacker can bypass security features via the REST API, in
order to get non public information. [severity:1/4; CVE-2017-5487]

An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via
update-core.php, in order to run JavaScript code in the context of
the web site. [severity:2/4; CVE-2017-5488]

An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery via a Flash
file upload, in order to force the victim to perform operations.
[severity:2/4; CVE-2017-5489]

An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via theme names, in
order to run JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
[severity:2/4; CVE-2017-5490]

The mail manager uses the fake domain name "mail.example.com"
instead of the real one. [severity:1/4; CVE-2017-5491]

An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery via the
accessibility mode, in order to force the victim to perform
operations. [severity:2/4; CVE-2017-5492]

A weak cryptography may be used. [severity:1/4; CVE-2017-5493]

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Core-seven-vulnerabilities-21569