CVE-2017-9064 Information

Description

In WordPress before 4.7.5 a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in the filesystem credentials dialog because a nonce is not required for updating credentials.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3870 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98509 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038520 https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.5 https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/38347d7c580be4cdd8476e4bbc653d5c79ed9b67 https://wordpress.org/news/2017/05/wordpress-4-7-5/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8818

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8