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HistoryMar 14, 2019 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2019-9787

2019-03-1400:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
16

0.837 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.5%

WordPress before 5.1.1 does not properly filter comment content, leading to
Remote Code Execution by unauthenticated users in a default configuration.
This occurs because CSRF protection is mishandled, and because Search
Engine Optimization of A elements is performed incorrectly, leading to XSS.
The XSS results in administrative access, which allows arbitrary changes to
.php files. This is related to wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php and
wp-includes/comment.php.

Bugs

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchwordpress< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchwordpress< anyUNKNOWN