CVE-2019-20041

wpksesbad_protocol in wp-includes/kses.php in WordPress before 5.3.1 mishandles the HTML5 colon named entity, allowing attackers to bypass input sanitization, as demonstrated by the javascript: substring.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Events

Introduced

Fixed

378daf04727d8124c3a98e2f801632e068c04964

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.3.1"
        }
    ]
}

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Fixed

b1975463dd995da19bb40d3fa0786498717e3c53

Database specific

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-20041.json"