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WordPress Vulnerabilities

WP < 6.0.3 - Stored XSS via wp-mail.php

Description

WordPress does not properly sanitize some parameters when receiving a post by email, which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

Affects WordPress

6.0.2
Fixed in version 6.0.3
6.0.1
Fixed in version 6.0.3
6.0
Fixed in version 6.0.3
5.9.4
Fixed in version 5.9.5
5.9.3
Fixed in version 5.9.5
5.9.2
Fixed in version 5.9.5
5.9.1
Fixed in version 5.9.5
5.9
Fixed in version 5.9.5
5.8.5
Fixed in version 5.8.6
5.8.4
Fixed in version 5.8.6

References

URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2022/10/wordpress-6-0-3-security-release/
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/abf236fdaf94455e7bc6e30980cf70401003e283

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Toshitsugu Yoneyama of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. via JPCERT

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
713bdc8b-ab7c-46d7-9847-305344a579c4

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-10-17 (about 3 months ago)

Added

2022-10-18 (about 3 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-10-18 (about 3 months ago)

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