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ghsa-8j68-mq56-8vpm

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:05

Modified

2022-11-23 21:30

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2019-20041 (GCVE-0-2019-20041)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-12-27 07:14

Modified

2024-08-05 02:32

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

References

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	https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/b1975463dd995da19bb40d3fa0786498717e3c53	x_refsource_MISC
	https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8	mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
	https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00010.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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