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Wordpress: CVE-2019-17673: Improper Input Validation

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Wordpress: CVE-2019-17673: Improper Input Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/17/2019
Created
11/16/2019
Added
11/12/2019
Modified
05/08/2020

Description

WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to poisoning of the cache of JSON GET requests because certain requests lack a Vary: Origin header.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-5_2_4

References

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