CVE-2017-17093

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17093
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17093.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17093
Downstream
Published
2017-12-02T06:29:00.300Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:24:12.050593Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
fe24185f48a5fd27294c1251de7047c54fe178ca
Fixed
3713ac5ebc90fb2011e98dfd691420f43da6c09a
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "4.9.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17093.json"