CVE-2018-20153

MEDIUM

WordPress < 4.9.9 and 5.x < 5.0.1 - Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Modification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106220
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-0-1/
Product, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.9
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9172
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4401
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00019.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0538
EPSS Percentile 90.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
wordpress/wordpress < 4.9.9
Published Dec 14, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026