UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17673
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17673
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17673.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17673
- Upstream
- Published
- 2019-10-17T13:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-18T16:45:23Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Ubuntu - medium
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to poisoning of the cache of JSON GET requests because certain requests lack a Vary: Origin header.
- References
-
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17673
- https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46478
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b224c251adfa16a5f84074a3c0886270c9df38de
- https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17673
Affected packages
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / wordpress
Package
- Name
- wordpress
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/wordpress@4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial