Bug 1776886 (CVE-2019-17675)

Summary:	CVE-2019-17675 wordpress: does not properly consider type confusion during validation of the referer in the admin pages, possibly leading to CSRF
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fedora, kevin
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Bug Depends On:	1776887, 1776888, 1776889
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-26 14:22:37 UTC

WordPress before 5.2.4 does not properly consider type confusion during validation of the referer in the admin pages, possibly leading to CSRF.

Reference:
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9913

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b183fd1cca0b44a92f0264823dd9f22d2fd8b8d0

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-26 14:24:41 UTC

Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1776888]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1776889]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1776887]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-11-26 19:05:01 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.