PT-2017-14709 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2017-12-02 · Updated 2019-04-26 · CVE-2017-17094

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 improper restriction of enclosures in RSS and Atom fields in the wp-includes/feed.php file. This might allow attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL.

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-2017-17094

DLA-1216-1

DSA-4090-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 25

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/f1de7e42df29395c3314bf85bff3d1f4f90541de · Patch
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8967 · Patch
• 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
• 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17094 · 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/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17094 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17093 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17094 · Security Note