WordPress Core < 5.2.4 - Type Confusion

Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
CVE CVE-2019-17675
CVSS Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published October 14, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ben Bidner
Description

WordPress before 5.2.4 does not properly consider type confusion during validation of the referer in the admin pages, possibly leading to CSRF.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6.1
  • 3.7 - 3.7.30
  • 3.8 - 3.8.30
  • 3.9 - 3.9.28
  • 4.0 - 4.0.27
  • 4.1 - 4.1.27
  • 4.2 - 4.2.24
  • 4.3 - 4.3.20
  • 4.4 - 4.4.19
  • 4.5 - 4.5.18
  • 4.6 - 4.6.15
  • 4.7 - 4.7.13
  • 4.8 - 4.8.10
  • 4.9 - 4.9.11
  • 5.0 - 5.0.6
  • 5.1 - 5.1.2
  • 5.2 - 5.2.3
Patched Version
  • 3.7.31
  • 3.8.31
  • 3.9.29
  • 4.0.28
  • 4.1.28
  • 4.2.25
  • 4.3.21
  • 4.4.20
  • 4.5.19
  • 4.6.16
  • 4.7.14
  • 4.8.11
  • 4.9.12
  • 5.0.7
  • 5.1.3
  • 5.2.4
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