Remote Yes

Type Insufficient validation

Description

is_protected_meta in wp-includes/meta.php in WordPress before 5.5.2 allows arbitrary file deletion because it does not properly determine whether a meta key is considered protected.

AVG-1257 wordpress 5.5.1-1 5.5.3-1 Critical Fixed

03 Nov 2020 ASA-202011-3 AVG-1257 wordpress Critical multiple issues

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/d5ddd6d4be1bc9fd16b7796842e6fb26315705ad