PT-2017-14706 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2017-12-02 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-17091

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.9.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. This is due to the newbloguser key being set to a string that can be directly derived from the user ID.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.9.1, update to version 4.9.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Use of Insufficiently Random Values

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-330

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17091

DLA-1216-1

DSA-4090-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 25

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/eaf1cfdc1fe0bdffabd8d879c591b864d833326c · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17091 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9066 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17092 · Security Note
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16510 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4090-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4090-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17091 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17091 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17091 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17091 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17091 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17093 · Security Note