FKIE_CVE-2017-1001000

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-04-03 01:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:59
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
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.
References
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/10/16
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037731
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/02/wordpress-web-api-vulnerability.html
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179https://gist.github.com/leonjza/2244eb15510a0687ed93160c623762ab
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e357195ce303017d517aff944644a7a1232926f7
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/02/01/disclosure-of-additional-security-fix-in-wordpress-4-7-2/
46fe6300-5254-4a98-9594-a9567bec8179https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/10/16
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037731
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/02/wordpress-web-api-vulnerability.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gist.github.com/leonjza/2244eb15510a0687ed93160c623762ab
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e357195ce303017d517aff944644a7a1232926f7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/02/01/disclosure-of-additional-security-fix-in-wordpress-4-7-2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wordpress wordpress 4.7
wordpress wordpress 4.7.1
wordpress wordpress 4.7.2
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