vulnerability

Wordpress: CVE-2019-16222: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 11, 2019
Added
Oct 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

WordPress before 5.2.3 has an issue with URL sanitization in wp_kses_bad_protocol_once in wp-includes/kses.php that can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Solution

wordpress-upgrade-5_2_3
Title
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