CVE-2019-17673

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46478Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b224c251adfa16a5f84074a3c0886270c9df38dePatch, Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9911Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677Third Party Advisory
https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46478Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b224c251adfa16a5f84074a3c0886270c9df38dePatch, Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9911Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 17, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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