CVE-2017-6514: Infoleak

First published: Wed May 22 2019(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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• agent/author
• agent/severity
• agent/references
• agent/weakness
• agent/type
• agent/description
• agent/event
• agent/softwarecombine
• agent/first-publish-date
• agent/last-modified-date
• agent/tags
• collector/nvd-index
• agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
• vendor/wordpress
• canonical/wordpress wordpress
• version/wordpress wordpress/4.7.2