CVE-2019-20041 (GCVE-0-2019-20041)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-12-27 07:14 – Updated: 2024-08-05 02:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
wp_kses_bad_protocol in wp-includes/kses.php in WordPress before 5.3.1 mishandles the HTML5 colon named entity, allowing attackers to bypass input sanitization, as demonstrated by the javascript: substring.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://wordpress.org/news/2019/12/wordpress-5-3-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/co… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8 | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
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