CVE-2019-20042

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20042
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-20042.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-20042
Aliases
  • GHSA-xvg2-m2f4-83m7
Downstream
Published
2019-12-27T08:15:09.747Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:50:42.857469012Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress 3.7 to 5.3.0, the function wptargetedlink_rel() can be used in a particular way to result in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This has been patched in WordPress 5.3.1, along with all the previous WordPress versions from 3.7 to 5.3 via a minor release.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "10.0"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress
Events
Introduced
3921fd373acaeeeee2029f762b676075cf375b33
Fixed
378daf04727d8124c3a98e2f801632e068c04964
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.7"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.3.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-20042.json"

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop
Events
Introduced
f1d358137f7ed657db6afec1b1eca0b9f7814e25
Fixed
61b04c907bdbd9e94c3c2b50d0f0be161d7900ce
Fixed
1f7f3f1f59567e2504f0fbebd51ccf004b3ccb1d
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "CPE_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.7"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.3.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-20042.json"