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Wordpress: CVE-2019-9787: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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Wordpress: CVE-2019-9787: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/14/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
03/19/2019
Modified
05/08/2020

Description

WordPress before 5.1.1 does not properly filter comment content, leading to Remote Code Execution by unauthenticated users in a default configuration. This occurs because CSRF protection is mishandled, and because Search Engine Optimization of A elements is performed incorrectly, leading to XSS. The XSS results in administrative access, which allows arbitrary changes to .php files. This is related to wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php and wp-includes/comment.php.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-5_1_1

References

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