Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-20042

Title: Wordpress Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-20042.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Dec 27, 2019

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2019-20042: In wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress 3.7 to 5.3.0, the function wp_targeted_link_rel() can be used in a particular way to result in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This has been patched in WordPress 5.3.1, along with all the previous WordPress versions from 3.7 to 5.3 via a minor release.

Impacted Vendors

wordpress 1

Reference Links

https://blog.ripstech.com/filter/vulnerabilities/ https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46894/trunk https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/1f7f3f1f59567e2504f0fbebd51ccf004b3ccb1d https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-xvg2-m2f4-83m7 https://hackerone.com/reports/509930 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8 https://wordpress.org/news/2019/12/wordpress-5-3-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9975 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677 https://blog.ripstech.com/filter/vulnerabilities/ https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46894/trunk https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/1f7f3f1f59567e2504f0fbebd51ccf004b3ccb1d https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-xvg2-m2f4-83m7 https://hackerone.com/reports/509930 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8 https://wordpress.org/news/2019/12/wordpress-5-3-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9975 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-20042 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 27, 2019 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.