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WordPress Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability (CVE-2017-6514) - Vulnerability Database

WordPress Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability (CVE-2017-6514)

Description

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

CVE-2017-6514

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2017-6514
CWE-200
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Tags

Missing Update
Known Vulnerabilities