High
Security advisory
In WordPress before 4.7.5, there is a lack of capability checks for post meta data in the XML-RPC API.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-9065
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In WordPress before 4.7.5, there is a lack of capability checks for post meta data in the XML-RPC API.
osv:CVE-2017-9065
Complete source record
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