CVE-2019-20042

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.1

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

5.05

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
wordpress security update(DSA-4599-1) wordpress_5.0.4+dfsg1-1+deb10u1_all.deb	Linux
wordpress security update(DSA-4677-1) wordpress_4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u6_all.deb	Linux
wordpress security update(DSA-4677-1) wordpress_5.0.4+dfsg1-1+deb10u2_all.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234