EPSS
Percentile
82.5%
The release notes state: “Thanks to Justin Tran who reported an issue surrounding privilege escalation in XML-RPC. He also found and disclosed an issue around privilege escalation around post commenting via XML-RPC.”
blog.wpscan.com/2020/10/30/wordpress-5.5.2-security-release.html
github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/c9e6b98968025b1629015998d12c3102165a7d32
wordpress.org/news/2020/10/wordpress-5-5-2-security-and-maintenance-release/