9.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2019-20041

Published: 27/12/2019 Updated: 23/11/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

wp_kses_bad_protocol in wp-includes/kses.php in WordPress prior to 5.3.1 mishandles the HTML5 colon named entity, allowing malicious users to bypass input sanitization, as demonstrated by the javascript: substring.

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Vendor Advisories

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