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CVE-2019-20041
Published: Dec 27, 2019
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
wp_kses_bad_protocol in wp-includes/kses.php in WordPress before 5.3.1 mishandles the HTML5 colon named entity, allowing attackers to bypass input sanitization, as demonstrated by the javascript: substring.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
20200108 [SECURITY] [DSA 4599-1] wordpress security update
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
DSA-4599
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
[debian-lts-announce] 20200114 [SECURITY] [DLA 2067-1] wordpress security update
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
DSA-4677
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
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