In WordPress before 5.2.4, unauthenticated viewing of certain content is possible because the static query property is mishandled.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2019-17671 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 72.90%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47690 | exploit_db | edb | 2019-10-14 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-05-31 | 81.10% | 72.90% | -8.20% |
| 2 | 2026-05-28 | 79.87% | 81.10% | +1.22% |
| 3 | 2026-05-03 | — | 79.87% | — |
Full EPSS history (64 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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3.9 | 1.4 | [email protected] |
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
not yet assigned | CVE-2019-17671 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (wordpress), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17671 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2019-17671 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wordpress), 18 status rows across 18 suites (bionic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 12, ignored 2, needs-triage 2, DNE 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17671 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | wordpress | < 5.2.4 | cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46474 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f82ed753cf00329a5e41f2cb6dc521085136f308 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00000.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
| https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
| https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/ | Release Notes Vendor Advisory |
| https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9909 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677 | Third Party Advisory |