FS#53945 - [wordpress]WordPress Core <= 4.7.4 Potential Unauthorized Password Reset [CVE-2017-8295]

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Filip Frackiewicz (notreallyhere) - Saturday, 06 May 2017, 11:17 GMT
Last edited by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Sunday, 07 May 2017, 13:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Security
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Wordpress 4.7.4 has a vulnerability within its password reset feature. You can read more about it here:

https://exploitbox.io/vuln/WordPress-Exploit-4-7-Unauth-Password-Reset-0day-CVE-2017-8295.html

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/May/13
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Closed by  Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Sunday, 07 May 2017, 13:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Sunday, 07 May 2017, 13:26 GMT
The workaround is to configure the web server properly. For Apache, that means setting "UseCanonicalName" to "On".

Applying a patch. Hopefully upstream will fix this in a later release.

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