CVE-2018-20153 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
5.4%
top 9.89%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WordpressDebian WordpressDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedDec 14
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 5.0.1+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)
▶NVDwordpress/wordpress5.0 — 5.0.1+1
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 5.0.1+dfsg1-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-w8h5-qp6m-vfm9: In WordPress before 4↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-20153: In WordPress before 4↗2018-12-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2018-20153: wordpress - In WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1, contributors could modify new co...↗2018
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