CVE-2017-1001000 - The register_routes function in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in

CVE-2017-1001000

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

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	5.0 (as of 03-10-2019 - 00:03)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	PARTIAL	NONE

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

refmap via4

confirm	https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2 https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/e357195ce303017d517aff944644a7a1232926f7 https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/02/01/disclosure-of-additional-security-fix-in-wordpress-4-7-2/ https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/
misc	https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/02/wordpress-web-api-vulnerability.html https://gist.github.com/leonjza/2244eb15510a0687ed93160c623762ab
mlist	[oss-security] 20170210 Re: Asking for a CVE id for the WordPress Privilege Escalation vulnerability (4.7/4.7.1)
sectrack	1037731

Last major update

03-10-2019 - 00:03

Published

03-04-2017 - 01:59

Last modified

03-10-2019 - 00:03