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WordPress Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2019-20041

Critical
Reference: CVE-2019-20041
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20041
Title: WordPress Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
Overview:

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 javascriptampcolon substring.