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Debian: CVE-2017-17091: wordpress -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 2, 2017
Added
Jan 18, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-wordpress
Title
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