PT-2018-15274 · WordPress · Wordpress

Sam Thomas · Published 2018-12-14 · Updated 2019-03-04 · CVE-2018-20153

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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 contributors to modify new comments made by users with greater privileges, which could lead to XSS.

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-2018-20153

DLA-1673-1

DSA-4401-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 42

• 🔥 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://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/CVE-2018-20153 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1673-1 · Vendor Advisory
• 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
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8942 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20153 · Security Note