CVE-2018-20153

published 2018-12-14

CVE-2018-20153: 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.

Priority P4 26 medium 5.4 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR L UI R S C C L I L A N

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.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 5.0.1+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 5.0.1+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	< 4.9.9	4.9.9
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 5.0.1+dfsg1-1	5.0.1+dfsg1-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 5.0.1+dfsg1-1	5.0.1+dfsg1-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 5.0.1+dfsg1-1	5.0.1+dfsg1-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 5.0.1+dfsg1-1	5.0.1+dfsg1-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 5.0 < 5.0.1	5.0.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 5.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd v2.0 3.5 LOW AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 5.4 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.4 MEDIUM

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