PT-2018-9683 · WordPress · Wordpress

Nitin Venkatesh + 1 · Published 2018-04-14 · Updated 2018-05-18 · CVE-2018-10102

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 4.9.5

Description: The issue arises from the version string not being properly escaped in the get the generator function, potentially leading to XSS in a generator tag.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 4.9.5, update to version 4.9.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-10102

DLA-1366-1

DSA-4193-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 24

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/31a4369366d6b8ce30045d4c838de2412c77850d · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10101 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4193-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10102 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-10102 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10100 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10102 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10102 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10102 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10102 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10102 · Vendor Advisory
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/42893 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10102 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4193 · Vendor Advisory