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medium 5.4

CVE-2020-4046 json

Authenticated XSS through embed block in WordPress

published 6y ago modified 2mo ago also BIT-wordpress-2020-4046 , BIT-wordpress-multisite-2020-4046 , EUVD-2020-25304 , GHSA-rpwf-hrh2-39jf

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In affected versions of WordPress, users with low privileges (like contributors and authors) can use the embed block in a certain way to inject unfiltered HTML in the block editor. When affected posts are viewed by a higher privileged user, this could lead to script execution in the editor/wp-admin. This has been patched in version 5.4.2, along with all the previously affected versions via a minor release (5.3.4, 5.2.7, 5.1.6, 5.0.10, 4.9.15, 4.8.14, 4.7.18, 4.6.19, 4.5.22, 4.4.23, 4.3.24, 4.2.28, 4.1.31, 4.0.31, 3.9.32, 3.8.34, 3.7.34).

Patch / fix

  • bitnami wordpress 3.7.34, 3.8.34, 3.9.32, 4.0.31, 4.1.31, 4.2.28, 4.3.24, 4.4.23, 4.5.22, 4.6.19, 4.7.18, 4.8.14, 4.9.15, 5.0.10, 5.1.6, 5.2.7, 5.3.4, 5.4.2
  • bitnami wordpress-multisite 3.7.34, 3.8.34, 3.9.32, 4.0.31, 4.1.31, 4.2.28, 4.3.24, 4.4.23, 4.5.22, 4.6.19, 4.7.18, 4.8.14, 4.9.15, 5.0.10, 5.1.6, 5.2.7, 5.3.4, 5.4.2
  • wordpress wordpress 3.7.34, 3.8.34, 3.9.32, 4.0.31, 4.1.31, 4.2.28, 4.3.24, 4.4.23, 4.5.22, 4.6.19, 4.7.18, 4.8.14, 4.9.15, 5.0.10, 5.1.6, 5.2.7, 5.3.4, 5.4.2
  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.4.2+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-4046

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-4046 updated cvss 5.4

wordpress: authenticated XSS through embed block

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami wordpress
>=3.7.0, <3.7.34
>=3.8.0, <3.8.34
>=3.9.0, <3.9.32
>=4.0.0, <4.0.31
>=4.1.0, <4.1.31
>=4.2.0, <4.2.28
>=4.3.0, <4.3.24
>=4.4.0, <4.4.23
>=4.5.0, <4.5.22
>=4.6.0, <4.6.19
>=4.7.0, <4.7.18
>=4.8.0, <4.8.14
>=4.9.0, <4.9.15
>=5.0.0, <5.0.10
>=5.1.0, <5.1.6
>=5.2.0, <5.2.7
>=5.3.0, <5.3.4
>=5.4.0, <5.4.2
3.7.34
3.8.34
3.9.32
4.0.31
4.1.31
4.2.28
4.3.24
4.4.23
4.5.22
4.6.19
4.7.18
4.8.14
4.9.15
5.0.10
5.1.6
5.2.7
5.3.4
5.4.2
bitnami wordpress-multisite
>=3.7.0, <3.7.34
>=3.8.0, <3.8.34
>=3.9.0, <3.9.32
>=4.0.0, <4.0.31
>=4.1.0, <4.1.31
>=4.2.0, <4.2.28
>=4.3.0, <4.3.24
>=4.4.0, <4.4.23
>=4.5.0, <4.5.22
>=4.6.0, <4.6.19
>=4.7.0, <4.7.18
>=4.8.0, <4.8.14
>=4.9.0, <4.9.15
>=5.0.0, <5.0.10
>=5.1.0, <5.1.6
>=5.2.0, <5.2.7
>=5.3.0, <5.3.4
>=5.4.0, <5.4.2
3.7.34
3.8.34
3.9.32
4.0.31
4.1.31
4.2.28
4.3.24
4.4.23
4.5.22
4.6.19
4.7.18
4.8.14
4.9.15
5.0.10
5.1.6
5.2.7
5.3.4
5.4.2

Affected products

  • WordPress wordpress-develop

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of WordPress/wordpress-develop published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.