VDB
CVE-2020-4050
CVE-2020-4050
PUBLISHED
CVSS 8.5 HIGH
set-screen-option filter misuse by plugins leading to privilege escalation in WordPress
EPSS 2.42% · 85.4th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 4.0
8.5
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS Score
2.42%
85.4th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Bitnami | wordpress-multisite | 4.1.0, 4.0.0, 3.9.0 |
| Bitnami | wordpress | 4.9.0, 3.7.0, 3.8.0 |
| Bitnami | wordpress-multisite | 4.1.0, 4.5.0, 5.2.0 |
| Bitnami | wordpress | 3.7.0, 5.4.0, 4.1.0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://wordpress.org/news/2020/06/wordpress-5-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/ (circl)
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-4vpv-fgg2-gcqc (circl)
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/b8dea76b495f0072523106c6ec46b9ea0d2a0920 (circl)
- FEDORA-2020-8447a3e195 (circl)
- FEDORA-2020-bbedd29391 (circl)
- DSA-4709 (circl)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200701 [SECURITY] [DLA 2269-1] wordpress security update (circl)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200911 [SECURITY] [DLA 2371-1] wordpress security update (circl)
Timeline
- Jun 12, 2020 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 11, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 14, 2023 EPSS Score
- Nov 16, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/b8dea76b495f0072523106c6ec46b9ea0d2a0920 url
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-4vpv-fgg2-gcqc url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00000.html url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00011.html url
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/773N2ZV7QEMBGKH6FBKI6Q5S3YJMW357/ url
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ODNHXVJS25YVWYQHOCICXTLIN5UYJFDN/ url
- https://wordpress.org/news/2020/06/wordpress-5-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/ url
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4709 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-4050 url