UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20041

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-20041
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20041.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20041
Upstream
Published
2019-12-27T08:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:48:07Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

wpksesbad_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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wordpress@4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.3+dfsg-1
4.3.1+dfsg-1
4.4+dfsg-1
4.4.1+dfsg-1
4.4.2+dfsg-1
4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress",
            "binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress-l10n",
            "binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentyfifteen",
            "binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentyfourteen",
            "binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentysixteen",
            "binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20041.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wordpress@4.9.5+dfsg1-1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.8.2+dfsg-2
4.8.3+dfsg-1
4.9.1+dfsg-1
4.9.2+dfsg-1
4.9.4+dfsg-1
4.9.5+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress",
            "binary_version": "4.9.5+dfsg1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress-l10n",
            "binary_version": "4.9.5+dfsg1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentyfifteen",
            "binary_version": "4.9.5+dfsg1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentyseventeen",
            "binary_version": "4.9.5+dfsg1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentysixteen",
            "binary_version": "4.9.5+dfsg1-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20041.json"