CVSS 3.0
8.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-17091
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 7.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-330
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- wordpress:wordpress
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102024
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/eaf1cfdc1fe0bdffabd8d879c591b864d833326c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00019.html
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release/