CVE-2017-5490

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5490
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5490.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5490
Downstream
Published
2017-01-15T02:59:02.937Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:24:28.737499Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted directory name of a theme, related to wp-admin/includes/class-theme-installer-skin.php.

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
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.7"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5490.json"