vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: postie: CVE-2019-20204: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 2, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Postie plugin 1.9.40 for WordPress allows XSS, as demonstrated by a certain payload with jaVasCript:/* at the beginning and a crafted SVG element.

Solution

postie-plugin-cve-2019-20204
Title
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