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🛡️ BIT-wordpress-2021-39202 — wordpress

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
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Description

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. In affected versions the widgets editor introduced in WordPress 5.8 beta 1 has improper handling of HTML input in the Custom HTML feature. This leads to stored XSS in the custom HTML widget. This has been patched in WordPress 5.8. It was only present during the testing/beta phase of WordPress 5.8.

Affected software

BIT-wordpress-2021-39202 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wordpress

Timeline and source

Published on 31 January 2024 and last revised on 13 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
hackerone.com (Web)

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-01-31
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wordpress — —

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