PT-2019-5208 · WordPress · Wordpress

CVE-2019-16218 · Published 2019-09-11 · Updated 2023-01-31

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 5.2.3

Description The issue is related to an error in handling stored comments, allowing for XSS attacks. This could potentially enable a remote attacker to impact data integrity.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 5.2.3, update to version 5.2.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to comment management functions until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-01937

CVE-2019-16218

DLA-1960-1

DSA-4599-1

DSA-4677-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 76

• 🔥 https://github.com/sijiahi/Wordpress_cve-2019-9787_defense · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16218 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-03938 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4599-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-01945 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16218 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1960-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-03934 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11028 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17675 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1960-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-03939 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16781 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17674 · Security Note