CVE-2017-5492: WordPress

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 4.7

Published 2017-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.