WordPress Core < 4.9 - Insecure Deserialization

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2017-1000600
CVSS	High (8.8)
Publicly Published	August 16, 2018
Last Updated	February 7, 2024
Researcher	Sam Thomas

Description

WordPress version <4.9 contains a CWE-20 Input Validation vulnerability in thumbnail processing that can result in remote code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via thumbnail upload by an authenticated user and may require additional plugins in order to be exploited however this has not been confirmed at this time. This issue appears to have been partially, but not completely fixed in WordPress 4.9

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Core
Software Slug	wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 4.9
Patched Version	4.9

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