Candidate: CVE-2017-17091
PublicDate: 2017-12-02 06:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17091
 https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/eaf1cfdc1fe0bdffabd8d879c591b864d833326c
 https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
 https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.1
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883314
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [8.8 HIGH]


Patches_wordpress:
upstream_wordpress: released (4.9.1+dfsg-1)
precise/esm_wordpress: DNE
trusty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_wordpress: DNE (trusty was needed)
xenial_wordpress: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
zesty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
cosmic_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
disco_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
eoan_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
focal_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
groovy_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
hirsute_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
impish_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
jammy_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)
devel_wordpress: not-affected (4.9.5+dfsg1-1)