CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17091
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-330
Description
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 configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102024 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1 Patch, Release Notes
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/eaf1cfdc1fe0bdffabd8d879c591b864d833326c Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00019.html lists.debian.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Release Notes
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8969 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4090 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102024 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1 Patch, Release Notes
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/eaf1cfdc1fe0bdffabd8d879c591b864d833326c Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00019.html lists.debian.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ Release Notes
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8969 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4090 www.debian.org