CVE-2017-17091

published 2017-12-02

CVE-2017-17091: wp-admin/user-new.php in WordPress before 4.9.1 sets the newbloguser key to a string that can be directly derived from the user ID, which allows remote…

Priority P3 56 high 8.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

wp-admin/user-new.php in WordPress before 4.9.1 sets the newbloguser key to a string that can be directly derived from the user ID, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by entering this string.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 4.9.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 4.9.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 4.9	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.9.1+dfsg-1	4.9.1+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.9.1+dfsg-1	4.9.1+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.9.1+dfsg-1	4.9.1+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.9.1+dfsg-1	4.9.1+dfsg-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.5 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 8.8 HIGH

vendor_debian 8.8 HIGH

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