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Wordpress: CVE-2018-20153: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Wordpress: CVE-2018-20153: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/14/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/15/2019
Modified
08/12/2020

Description

In WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1, contributors could modify new comments made by users with greater privileges, possibly causing XSS.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_9_9
  • wordpress-upgrade-5_0_1

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