github - ghsa-9xr7-2f3f-frc6

ghsa-9xr7-2f3f-frc6

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:44

Modified

2025-04-20 03:49

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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    "nvd_published_at": "2017-12-02T06:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
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  "id": "GHSA-9xr7-2f3f-frc6",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:49:23Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:44:16Z",
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    },
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      "url": "https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00019.html"
    },
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    },
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    },
    {
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    },
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}

CVE-2017-17091 (GCVE-0-2017-17091)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-12-02 06:00

Modified

2024-08-05 20:43

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4090	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8969	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00019.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102024	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/eaf1cfdc1fe0bdffabd8d879c591b864d833326c	x_refsource_MISC
	https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release/	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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