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CVE-2020-36172

Date: January 6, 2021

The Advanced Custom Fields plugin before 5.8.12 for WordPress mishandles the escaping of strings in Select2 dropdowns, potentially leading to XSS.

Language: PHP

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Related Resources (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36172
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/#developers
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-36172

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CWE-79

CVSS v3

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User Interaction (UI):
Scope (S):
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

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Authentication (AU):
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH
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