WordPress core
CVE-2020-11029
WordPress: Cross-site scripting in stats method (object cache)
- Severity
- Medium 6.1
- Published
- 30 Apr 2020
- Last changed
- 17 Jun 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 17 Oct 2026
- Fixed in
- 4.9.14, 5.0.9, 5.1.5, 5.2.6, 5.3.3, 5.4.1
- Also known as
- GHSA-568w-8m88-8g2c
- Sources
- NVD, WordPress
Description
In affected versions of WordPress, a vulnerability in the stats() method of class-wp-object-cache.php can be exploited to execute cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This has been patched in version 5.4.1, along with all the previously affected versions via a minor release (5.3.3, 5.2.6, 5.1.5, 5.0.9, 4.9.14, 4.8.13, 4.7.17, 4.6.18, 4.5.21, 4.4.22, 4.3.23, 4.2.27, 4.1.30, 4.0.30, 3.9.31, 3.8.33,…
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
WordPressWordPress core · cpe:a:wordpress:wordpress |
All 19 release lines
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References
- NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11029
- CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11029
- GitHub Advisory Database https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-568w-8m88-8g2c
- WordPress security advisory https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-568w-8m88-8g2c