5.4
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-4046

Published: 12/06/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 6.8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.4 | Impact Score: 2.7 | Exploitability Score: 2.3
VMScore: 312
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

In affected versions of WordPress, users with low privileges (like contributors and authors) can use the embed block in a certain way to inject unfiltered HTML in the block editor. When affected posts are viewed by a higher privileged user, this could lead to script execution in the editor/wp-admin. This has been patched in version 5.4.2, along with all the previously affected versions via a minor release (5.3.4, 5.2.7, 5.1.6, 5.0.10, 4.9.15, 4.8.14, 4.7.18, 4.6.19, 4.5.22, 4.4.23, 4.3.24, 4.2.28, 4.1.31, 4.0.31, 3.9.32, 3.8.34, 3.7.34).

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Vendor Advisories

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool They allowed remote attackers to perform various Cross-Side Scripting (XSS) attacks, create open redirects, escalate privileges, and bypass authorization access For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 5010+dfsg1-0+deb10u1 We recomm ...