CVE-2018-20153
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.4 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
5.4CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
In WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1, contributors could modify new comments made by users with greater privileges, possibly causing XSS.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.9Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-0-1/Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9172Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106220Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00019.htmlAdvisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4401Advisory
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-plugs-bug-that-led-to-google-indexing-some-user-passwords/Advisory