WordPress <= 5.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Patch priority: low
Resolve by 12 January, 2019 Low priority
Unknown severity CVSS 3.1 score

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Update WordPress to the latest available version (at least 5.0.1).

Tim Coen and Slavco discovered and reported this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress. This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 5.0.1.

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