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WordPress <= 5.0 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) that could affect plugins

Description

According to WordPress:

"Tim Coen also discovered that specially crafted URL inputs could lead to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in some circumstances. WordPress itself was not affected, but plugins could be in some situations."

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-2018-20150
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/fb3c6ea0618fcb9a51d4f2c1940e9efcd4a2d460

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
7f7a0795-4dd7-417d-804e-54f12595d1e4

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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