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Case File

CVE-2019-20041

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 4.65% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-12-27 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2019-20041
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.65%
WordPress Java

Original NVD 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.