Bug 1878847 (CVE-2020-25286)

Summary:	CVE-2020-25286 wordpress: comments from password-protected posts and pages can be displayed under certain conditions
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	fedora, kevin
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-09-14 16:32:54 UTC

In wp-includes/comment-template.php in WordPress before 5.4.2, comments from a post or page could sometimes be seen in the latest comments even if the post or page was not public.

Reference:
https://wordpress.org/news/2020/06/wordpress-5-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release/

Upstream patch:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/47984

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-09-14 16:33:09 UTC

Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1878848]