PT-2019-5211 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2019-09-11 · Updated 2023-01-31 · CVE-2019-16221

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 a reflected XSS error in the dashboard of the WordPress content management system. This could allow 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 the dashboard to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-01940

CVE-2019-16221

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://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-03938 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16221 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4599-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-01945 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-16221 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16221 · 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