vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2019-20041: wordpress -- security update
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Dec 27, 2019 | Jan 9, 2020 | May 8, 2020 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 27, 2019
Added
Jan 9, 2020
Modified
May 8, 2020
Description
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.
Solution
debian-upgrade-wordpress

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