{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5487 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2017-5487 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordpress Wordpress, published on 15 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-5487 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-5487 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordpress Wordpress, published on 15 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5487 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Wordpress Wordpress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5487/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5487/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-5487","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5487/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-5487","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5487","GHSA-94q7-f538-38mf"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress CMS","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can obtain sensitive user information via REST API requests due to improper restriction of post author listings in WordPress.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"wordpress","vendor":"wordpress"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-200","name":"Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor"}],"description":"wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-users-controller.php in the REST API implementation in WordPress 4.7 before 4.7.1 does not properly restrict listings of post authors, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a wp-json/wp/v2/users request.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2017-03-03","github_poc":9,"max_poc_stars":2,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2019-06-10T15:07:17Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/GeunSam2/CVE-2017-5487","stars":2,"title":"POC of CVE-2017-5487 + tool"},{"date":"2020-04-26T08:17:41Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/patilkr/wp-CVE-2017-5487-exploit","stars":2,"title":"WordPress  CVE-2017-5487  Exploit in Python"},{"date":"2018-02-17T05:59:49Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/R3K1NG/wpUsersScan","stars":1,"title":" Wordpress Username Enumeration /CVE-2017-5487,WordPress \u003c 4.7.1 -"},{"date":"2017-03-03","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"41497","stars":null,"title":"WordPress Core \u003c 4.7.1 - Username Enumeration"},{"date":"2017-10-22T09:22:28Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/teambugsbunny/wpUsersScan","stars":0,"title":"Wordpress Username Enumeration /CVE-2017-5487,WordPress \u003c 4.7.1 - "},{"date":"2021-11-04T02:25:57Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/zkhalidul/GrabberWP-CVE-2017-5487","stars":0,"title":null},{"date":"2023-01-29T04:43:37Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/SeasonLeague/CVE-2017-5487","stars":0,"title":"This is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that was discovered and disclosed in 2017. 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