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cveMitreCVE-2019-20041
HistoryDec 27, 2019 - 8:15 a.m.

CVE-2019-20041

2019-12-2708:15:09
CWE-20
mitre
web.nvd.nist.gov
254
3
wordpress
security
vulnerability
cve-2019-20041
nvd

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.009

Percentile

82.5%

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.

Affected configurations

Nvd
Node
wordpresswordpressRange<5.3.1
Node
debiandebian_linuxMatch8.0
OR
debiandebian_linuxMatch9.0
OR
debiandebian_linuxMatch10.0
VendorProductVersionCPE
wordpresswordpress*cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debiandebian_linux8.0cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debiandebian_linux9.0cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debiandebian_linux10.0cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.009

Percentile

82.5%