CVE-2017-5490

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CVSS 3.0

6.1 medium

EPSS

2%p83

Published

Jan 15, 2017 (Jan 15, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the theme-name fallback functionality in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted directory name of a theme, related to wp-admin/includes/class-theme-installer-skin.php.

Vendors: wordpress
Products: wordpress
Ecosystems: WordPress
Weakness: CWE-79
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.4%)

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