CVE•Published 2017-01-15•Modified 2026-05-13•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2017-5492Wordpress · Wordpress

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the widget-editing accessibility-mode feature in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that perform a widgets-access action, related to wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php and wp-admin/widgets.php.

Timeline

Published 2017-01-15

Modified 2026-05-13

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag3,986 hosts

vuln:CVE-2017-5492

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · WP plugin path

http.html:"/wp-content/plugins/wordpress/"

Matches any site loading the "wordpress" plugin — doesn't rely on Shodan's vuln tag.

Shodan · product

product:"Wordpress Wordpress"

All exposed Wordpress Wordpress instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Wordpress"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Wordpress" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.