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WordPress < 5.4.1 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in wp-object-cache

Description

WordPress' Object Cache that caches data from the database did not validate or encode the cache key. If an attacker managed to inject a malicious cache key that was then output in a third party plugin, it could lead to XSS.

Affects WordPress

5.4
Fixed in version 5.4.1
5.3.2
Fixed in version 5.3.3
5.3.1
Fixed in version 5.3.3
5.3
Fixed in version 5.3.3
5.2.5
Fixed in version 5.2.6
5.2.4
Fixed in version 5.2.6
5.2.3
Fixed in version 5.2.6
5.2.2
Fixed in version 5.2.6
5.2.1
Fixed in version 5.2.6
5.2
Fixed in version 5.2.6

References

CVE
CVE-2020-11029
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2020/04/wordpress-5-4-1/
URL
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/47637/
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/04/unpacking-the-7-vulnerabilities-fixed-in-todays-wordpress-5-4-1-security-update/
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-568w-8m88-8g2c

Classification

Type

XSS

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Nick Daugherty from WordPress VIP / WordPress Security Team

Submitter

Ryan

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
e721d8b9-a38f-44ac-8520-b4a9ed6a5157

Timeline

Publicly Published

2020-04-29 (about 2 years ago)

Added

2020-04-30 (about 2 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-05-02 (about 2 years ago)

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