CVE-2019-16222 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting8 documents6 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.4%
top 15.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
WordpressDebian WordpressDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 11
Latest updateMay 24

Description

WordPress before 5.2.3 has an issue with URL sanitization in wp_kses_bad_protocol_once in wp-includes/kses.php that can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 5.2.3+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)
▶NVDwordpress/wordpress< 5.2.3
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 5.2.3+dfsg1-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, 9.0

Patches

Patch: core.trac.wordpress.org ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: core.trac.wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-j28g-8c73-vhw9: WordPress before 5↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-16222: WordPress before 5↗2019-09-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2019-16222: wordpress - WordPress before 5.2.3 has an issue with URL sanitization in wp_kses_bad_protoco...↗2019
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💬Community

4
HackerOne
Version problem in wordpress leads to the many vulnearability↗2020-01-10
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-16222 wordpress: URL sanitization that can lead to XSS [epel-6]↗2019-11-25
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-16222 wordpress: URL sanitization that can lead to XSS [epel-7]↗2019-11-25
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-16222 wordpress: URL sanitization that can lead to XSS↗2019-11-25
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