CVE-2019-20042

In wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress 3.7 to 5.3.0, the function wptargetedlink_rel() can be used in a particular way to result in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This has been patched in WordPress 5.3.1, along with all the previous WordPress versions from 3.7 to 5.3 via a minor release.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Events

Introduced

3921fd373acaeeeee2029f762b676075cf375b33

Fixed

378daf04727d8124c3a98e2f801632e068c04964

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.7"
        },
        {
            "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

1f7f3f1f59567e2504f0fbebd51ccf004b3ccb1d

Database specific

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "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-2019-20042.json"