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WordPress Vulnerabilities

WordPress <= 5.0 - File Upload to XSS on Apache Web Servers

Description

According to WordPress:

"Tim Coen and Slavco discovered that authors on Apache-hosted sites could upload specifically crafted files that bypass MIME verification, 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-2018-20149
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/246a70bdbfac3bd45ff71c7941deef1bb206b19a

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Tim Coen and Slavco

Submitter

Ryan Dewhurst

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
d741f5ae-52ca-417d-a2ca-acdfb7ca5808

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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