CVE-2017-17091

CVE-2017-17091

Published · Updated

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 7.0%
exploitation probability
7.0%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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 products
n/a · n/a
References
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/eaf1cfdc1fe0bdffabd8d879c591b864d833326chttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00019.htmlhttps://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release/https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8969https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4090http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102024