CVE-2017-14313

Publication date 12 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The shibboleth_login_form function in shibboleth.php in the Shibboleth plugin before 1.8 for WordPress is prone to an XSS vulnerability due to improper use of add_query_arg().

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wordpress-shibboleth	17.04 zesty	Fixed 1.4-2+deb8u1build0.17.04.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.4-2+deb8u1build0.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.4-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.2

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
wordpress-shibboleth	Upstream: 1d65ad6

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N