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Server side cross-site scripting In wordpress

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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