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WordPress <= 5.8.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Patch within 30 days Low priority

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7.6

High severity CVSS 3.1 score

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Solution

Update to fix

Update WordPress to the latest available version (at least 5.8.3).

Karim El Ouerghemmi and Simon Scannell (SonarSource) 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 5.8.3.

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