Vulnerability CVE-2019-20041
Published: 2019-12-27

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 

 References:
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/b1975463dd995da19bb40d3fa0786498717e3c53
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8
https://wordpress.org/news/2019/12/wordpress-5-3-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599
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