PT-2018-15271 · WordPress · Wordpress

Sam Thomas · Published 2018-12-14 · Updated 2019-03-04 · CVE-2018-20150

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.9.9 WordPress versions 5.x prior to 5.0.1

Description The issue allows crafted URLs to trigger cross-site scripting (XSS) for certain use cases involving plugins.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 4.9.9, update to version 4.9.9 or later. For WordPress versions 5.x prior to 5.0.1, update to version 5.0.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20150

DLA-1673-1

DSA-4401-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 43

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/wp_crop_rce.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/brianwrf/WordPress_4.9.8_RCE_POC · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/synacktiv/CVE-2019-8942 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/nth347/CVE-2018-20148_exploit · Exploit
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/fb3c6ea0618fcb9a51d4f2c1940e9efcd4a2d460 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20150 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-0-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20150 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20147 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1673-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20150 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4401 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20151 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4401-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory