github - ghsa-hgh7-wggh-fw3g

ghsa-hgh7-wggh-fw3g

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 01:06

Modified

2025-04-20 03:49

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

wp-includes/general-template.php in WordPress before 4.9.1 does not properly restrict the lang attribute of an HTML element, which might allow attackers to conduct XSS attacks via the language setting of a site.

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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-12-02T06:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-hgh7-wggh-fw3g",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:49:23Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T01:06:19Z",
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "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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      "type": "WEB",
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4090"
    },
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}

CVE-2017-17093 (GCVE-0-2017-17093)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-12-02 06:00

Modified

2024-08-05 20:43

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

wp-includes/general-template.php in WordPress before 4.9.1 does not properly restrict the lang attribute of an HTML element, which might allow attackers to conduct XSS attacks via the language setting of a site.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4090	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00019.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/3713ac5ebc90fb2011e98dfd691420f43da6c09a	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102024	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1	x_refsource_MISC
	https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8968	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

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

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