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WordPress 5.0-5.2.2 - Authenticated Stored XSS in Shortcode Previews

Description

According to the WordPress release notes:

"Props to Zhouyuan Yang of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs who disclosed a vulnerability for cross-site scripting (XSS) in shortcode previews."

Affects WordPress

5.2.2
Fixed in version 5.2.3
5.0
Fixed in version 5.0.6
5.0.1
Fixed in version 5.0.6
5.0.2
Fixed in version 5.0.6
5.0.3
Fixed in version 5.0.6
5.0.4
Fixed in version 5.0.6
5.1
Fixed in version 5.1.2
5.1.1
Fixed in version 5.1.2
5.2
Fixed in version 5.2.3
5.2.1
Fixed in version 5.2.3

References

CVE
CVE-2019-16219
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2019/09/wordpress-5-2-3-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-18-165
URL
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/wordpress-core-stored-xss-vulnerability.html

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Zhouyuan Yang of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs

Submitter

Ryan Dewhurst

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
8aca2325-14b8-4b9d-94bd-d20b2c3b0c77

Timeline

Publicly Published

2019-09-05 (about 2 years ago)

Added

2019-09-05 (about 2 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 1 years ago)

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