CVE-2017-14990

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14990
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14990.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14990
Downstream
Published
2017-10-03T01:29:03Z
Modified
2025-10-13T04:33:37Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

WordPress 4.8.2 stores cleartext wpsignups.activationkey values (but stores the analogous wpusers.useractivation_key values as hashes), which might make it easier for remote attackers to hijack unactivated user accounts by leveraging database read access (such as access gained through an unspecified SQL injection vulnerability).

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
Last affected
3a101dd37d14b5e78c80ba5c67f1dafc4b07e7ee
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
3bc91a0521db1bbec1413e29ce5d1ecae6ab883a