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CVE-2017-5612

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php in the posts list table in WordPress before 4.7.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted excerpt.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• WordPress: through 4.7.1

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/28/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95816
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037731
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.2
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/4482f9207027de8f36630737ae085110896ea849
• https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-2-security-release/
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8731
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3779
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/28/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95816
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037731

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