PT-2020-5778

CVE-2020-28038

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Published

2020-10-15

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Updated

2024-03-06

Description by

CVSS 3.1
6.1
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress versions prior to 5.5.2
Description: The issue is related to insufficient protection measures for web page structures in the WordPress content management system. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to impact data integrity. The problem allows stored XSS via post slugs.
Recommendations: For versions prior to 5.5.2, update to version 5.5.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to post slug editing to minimize the risk of exploitation.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
BIT-WORDPRESS-2020-28038
BIT-WORDPRESS-MULTISITE-2020-28038
DLA-2429-1
DSA-4784-1
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