WordPress Core 5.6 — 6.3.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via Application Password Requests
a5368894-3277-47d0-8fad-adfb8df4fa93Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤6.3.1Update to 5.6.12 or 5.7.10 or 5.8.8 or 5.9.8 or 6.0.6 or 6.1.4 or 6.2.3 or 6.3.2 or newer
Fixed versions are per release branch: update to the fix for the branch you run.
All remediation stepsOn this page3
Overview
- Advisory ID
- a5368894-3277-47d0-8fad-adfb8df4fa93
- Product
- WordPress wordpress
- Affected
- ≤6.3.1
- Fixed in
- 5.6.12, 5.7.10, 5.8.8, 5.9.8, 6.0.6, 6.1.4, 6.2.3, 6.3.2
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- mascara7784
- Affected≤ 6.3.1
- Patched in5.6.12 / 5.7.10 / 5.8.8 / 5.9.8 / 6.0.6 / 6.1.4 / 6.2.3 / 6.3.2
Update to 5.6.12 / 5.7.10 / 5.8.8 / 5.9.8 / 6.0.6 / 6.1.4 / 6.2.3 / 6.3.2 or newer.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
WordPress Core is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘success_url’ and 'reject_url' parameters when requesting application passwords in versions between 5.6 and 6.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of pseudo protocol URIs. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link and accepting or rejecting the application password.
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Remediation & mitigations
- Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 5.6.12, 5.7.10, 5.8.8, 5.9.8, 6.0.6, 6.1.4, 6.2.3, 6.3.2
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.