critical
CVE-2017-1001000
WordPress REST API unauthenticated content injection / privilege escalation
- Severity
- critical
- Affected product
- WordPress
- Affected versions
- WordPress ≥ 4.7, < 4.7.2
- Fixed in
- WordPress 4.7.2
- Added to NewScan
- 2026-07-07
- Detected by
- NewScan — free, self-hosted
How NewScan reports it
COMPONENT VERSION RANGE
NewScan fingerprints WordPress from its response and reports this CVE when the detected version falls inside the affected range below.
References
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