CVE-2021-39202 (GCVE-0-2021-39202)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-09 21:55
Modified
2024-08-04 01:58
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. In affected versions the widgets editor introduced in WordPress 5.8 beta 1 has improper handling of HTML input in the Custom HTML feature. This leads to stored XSS in the custom HTML widget. This has been patched in WordPress 5.8. It was only present during the testing/beta phase of WordPress 5.8.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| WordPress | wordpress-develop |
Version: 5.8 beta 1 Version: 5.8 beta 2 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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