Security Advisory
CVE-2019-20041
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
wp_kses_bad_protocol in wp-includes/kses.php in WordPress before 5.3.1 mishandles the HTML5 colon named entity, allowing attackers to bypass input sanitization, as demonstrated by the javascript: substring.
Published Date
December 27, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory