CVE-2021-39202
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CVSS Score
V3.1EPSS Score
v2025.03.14There is a 0.8% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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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.
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WordPress Vulnerability
Identified and analyzed by Wordfence
Software Type
Patch Status
Published
Software Details
Software Name
WordPress
Software Slug
wordpress
Affected Versions
Patched Versions
Remediation
Update to version 5.8, or a newer patched version
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