Candidate: CVE-2019-20042
PublicDate: 2019-12-27 08:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-20042
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46894/trunk
 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/1f7f3f1f59567e2504f0fbebd51ccf004b3ccb1d
 https://wordpress.org/news/2019/12/wordpress-5-3-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
 https://blog.ripstech.com/filter/vulnerabilities/
 https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9975
Description:
 In wp-includes/formatting.php in WordPress 3.7 to 5.3.0, the function
 wp_targeted_link_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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Mitigation:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946905
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N [6.1 MEDIUM]


Patches_wordpress:
upstream_wordpress: released (5.3.2+dfsg1-1)
precise/esm_wordpress: DNE
trusty_wordpress: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_wordpress: DNE
xenial_wordpress: ignored (end of standard support, was needs-triage)
bionic_wordpress: needs-triage
disco_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
eoan_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
focal_wordpress: not-affected (5.3.2+dfsg1-1)
groovy_wordpress: not-affected (5.3.2+dfsg1-1)
hirsute_wordpress: not-affected (5.3.2+dfsg1-1)
impish_wordpress: not-affected (5.3.2+dfsg1-1)
jammy_wordpress: not-affected (5.3.2+dfsg1-1)
devel_wordpress: not-affected (5.3.2+dfsg1-1)