PT-2020-5776 · WordPress · Wordpress

Erwan Lr · CVE-2020-28040 · Published 2020-10-15 · Updated 2024-03-06

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress versions prior to 5.5.2

Description: The issue is related to insufficient mechanisms against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in the WordPress content management system. This allows a remote attacker to exploit the weakness and impact data integrity. The exploitation can lead to CSRF attacks that change a theme's background image.

Recommendations: For WordPress versions prior to 5.5.2, update to version 5.5.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

BDU:2021-01735

BIT-WORDPRESS-2020-28040

BIT-WORDPRESS-MULTISITE-2020-28040

CVE-2020-28040

DLA-2429-1

DSA-4784-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 24

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4784-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2429-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/VUXVUAKL2HL4QYJEPHBNVQQWRMFMII2Y · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28040 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/news/2020/10/wordpress-5-5-2-security-and-maintenance-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4784 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28040 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-28040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-wordpress-multisite-2020-28040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VAVVYJKA2I6CRQUINECDPBGWMQDEG244 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VUXVUAKL2HL4QYJEPHBNVQQWRMFMII2Y · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-28040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://blog.wpscan.com/2020/10/30/wordpress-5.5.2-security-release.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/CHHVNK2WYAM3ZTCXTFSEIT56IKLVJHU3 · Vendor Advisory