CVE-2017-5487

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5487
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5487.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5487
Downstream
Published
2017-01-15T02:59:02.797Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:16:25.661181Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-users-controller.php in the REST API implementation in WordPress 4.7 before 4.7.1 does not properly restrict listings of post authors, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a wp-json/wp/v2/users request.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
14247ee4302378d292863865c643abe99bbfe3c7
Fixed
daf358983cc1ce0c77bf6d2de2ebbb43df2add60
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.7"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5487.json"