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Wordpress: CVE-2020-28039: Unspecified Security Vulnerability

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Wordpress: CVE-2020-28039: Unspecified Security Vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/02/2020
Created
11/13/2020
Added
11/11/2020
Modified
11/11/2020

Description

is_protected_meta in wp-includes/meta.php in WordPress before 5.5.2 allows arbitrary file deletion because it does not properly determine whether a meta key is considered protected.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-5_5_2

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