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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-5492

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that perform a widgets-access action, related to wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php and wp-admin/widgets.php.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:42 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-5492

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Jan 2017, 02:59 UTC

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that perform a widgets-access action, related to wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php and wp-admin/widgets.php.

osv:CVE-2017-5492
Complete source record
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    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-5492",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:49:35.376811702Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/03e5c0314aeffe6b27f4b98fef842bf0fb00c733"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441766,
  "published_at": "2017-01-15T02:59:03.033+00:00"
}