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