UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20041
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-20041
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20041.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20041
- Upstream
- Published
- 2019-12-27T08:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-18T16:45:34Z
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Ubuntu - medium
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / wordpress
Package
- Name
- wordpress
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/wordpress@4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial