CVE-2019-20041

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CVSS v3
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS v2
7.5
HIGH
Affected
1
PROJECT

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.

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