CVE-2019-20041 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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&colon; substring.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Wordpress	Wordpress

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/b1975463dd995da19bb40d3fa0786498717e3c53
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00010.html
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
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-12-27T07:14:52

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:32:10.499Z

Reserved: 2019-12-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-20041

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-12-27T08:15:09.683

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:37:56.500

Link: CVE-2019-20041

Redhat

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