CVE-2017-6514

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6514

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6514.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6514

Downstream

Published

2019-05-22T18:29:00Z

Modified

2026-10-24T10:30:52Z

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

WordPress 4.7.2 mishandles listings of post authors, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (Path Disclosure) via a /wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url= request, related to the "author_name":" substring.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Events

Introduced

1ea8e9a4f03f425a6a77c3487528fedd3f33c100

Last Affected

1ea8e9a4f03f425a6a77c3487528fedd3f33c100

Database specific

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{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "4.7.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.7.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*

4.7.2

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6514.json"

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop