{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5490","details":"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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:09Z","published":"2017-01-15T02:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-5490"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5490"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8718"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/ce7fb2934dd111e6353784852de8aea2a938b359"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/6"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.mehmetince.net/low-severity-wordpress/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5490"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"wordpress","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wordpress@4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["4.3+dfsg-1","4.3.1+dfsg-1","4.4+dfsg-1","4.4.1+dfsg-1","4.4.2+dfsg-1","4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"wordpress","binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"},{"binary_name":"wordpress-l10n","binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"},{"binary_name":"wordpress-theme-twentyfifteen","binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"},{"binary_name":"wordpress-theme-twentyfourteen","binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"},{"binary_name":"wordpress-theme-twentysixteen","binary_version":"4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5490.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}