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

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5487

Published

2017-01-15T02:59:02Z

Modified

2026-10-24T10:47:30Z

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

Last Affected

14247ee4302378d292863865c643abe99bbfe3c7

Fixed

daf358983cc1ce0c77bf6d2de2ebbb43df2add60

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.7"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "daf358983cc1ce0c77bf6d2de2ebbb43df2add60"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*

4.7

4.7.0

Database specific

source

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

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop