PT-2017-14708 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2017-12-02 · Updated 2019-04-26 · CVE-2017-17093

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue is related to the lang attribute of an HTML element in the wp-includes/general-template.php file, which does not have proper restrictions. This might allow attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the language setting of a site.

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

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17093

DLA-1216-1

DSA-4090-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 25

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/3713ac5ebc90fb2011e98dfd691420f43da6c09a · Patch
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1 · 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://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17093 · Security Note
• 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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17093 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4090-1 · Vendor Advisory
• 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/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17093 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17093 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17093 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release · Vendor Advisory