CVE-2017-6514

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

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "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