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ghsa-j242-vw64-5qc4

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 01:19

Modified

2025-04-20 03:33

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

In WordPress before 4.7.3 (wp-admin/js/tags-box.js), there is cross-site scripting (XSS) via taxonomy term names.

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  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:33:59Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T01:19:31Z",
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    },
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    },
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CVE-2017-6818 (GCVE-0-2017-6818)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-03-12 01:00

Modified

2024-08-05 15:41

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

In WordPress before 4.7.3 (wp-admin/js/tags-box.js), there is cross-site scripting (XSS) via taxonomy term names.

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037959	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96601	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8769	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9092fd01e1f452f37c313d38b18f9fe6907541f9	x_refsource_MISC
	https://wordpress.org/news/2017/03/wordpress-4-7-3-security-and-maintenance-release/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.3	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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