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WordPress <= 5.0 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

According to WordPress:

"Tim Coen discovered that contributors could edit new comments from higher-privileged users, potentially leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability."

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.8
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.7.1
Fixed in version 3.7.28
3.9
Fixed in version 3.9.26
3.9.1
Fixed in version 3.9.26
3.7
Fixed in version 3.7.28
3.8.2
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.8.3
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.9.2
Fixed in version 3.9.26
4.0
Fixed in version 4.0.25

References

CVE
CVE-2018-20153
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Tim Coen

Submitter

Ryan Dewhurst

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
3182002e-d831-4412-a27d-a5e39bb44314

Timeline

Publicly Published

2018-12-13 (about 4 years ago)

Added

2018-12-13 (about 4 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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