CVE-2018-20153

medium

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.

References

https://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-plugs-bug-that-led-to-google-indexing-some-user-passwords/

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4401

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9172

https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-0-1/

https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00019.html

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.9

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106220

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-12-14

Updated: 2019-03-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium