Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2024-03-06 11:11
Modified
2025-04-03 14:40
Summary
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "wordpress",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/wordpress"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "5.5.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-28039"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "BIT-wordpress-2020-28039",
  "modified": "2025-04-03T14:40:37.652Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:11:24.706Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/d5ddd6d4be1bc9fd16b7796842e6fb26315705ad"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00004.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHHVNK2WYAM3ZTCXTFSEIT56IKLVJHU3/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VAVVYJKA2I6CRQUINECDPBGWMQDEG244/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VUXVUAKL2HL4QYJEPHBNVQQWRMFMII2Y/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wordpress.org/news/2020/10/wordpress-5-5-2-security-and-maintenance-release/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10452"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4784"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28039"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0"
}


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