WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to stored XSS (cross-site scripting) via the Customizer.
CVE-2019-17674
Score 5.4 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 5.4; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.4
- EG Score
- 5.4(medium)
- EPSS
- 73.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
October 17, 2019
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (12)
- cve@mitrehttps://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html
- cve@mitrehttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8
- cve@mitrehttps://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/
- cve@mitrehttps://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9908
- cve@mitrehttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599
- cve@mitrehttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.wpscan.org/wordpress/security/release/2019/10/15/wordpress-524-security-release-breakdown.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wordpress.org/news/2019/10/wordpress-5-2-4-security-release/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9908
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677
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