Cross-site scripting in WordPress - CVE-2018-20150
Published: December 13, 2018 / Updated: December 17, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16527
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20150
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
WordPress
wordpress (Debian package)
wordpress (Debian package)
How to mitigate CVE-2018-20150
Update to version 5.0.1.
WordPress - update to 5.0.1
wordpress (Debian package) - update to 4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u5
wordpress (Debian package) - update to 4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u5