Security Advisory

CVE-2019-20041

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-12-27 07:14:52
Last updated 2024-08-05 02:32:10
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State 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.