Bug 1894957 (CVE-2020-28035)

Summary:	CVE-2020-28035 wordpress: XML-RPC privilege escalation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fedora, kevin
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-11-05 13:50:08 UTC

WordPress before 5.5.2 allows attackers to gain privileges via XML-RPC.

Reference:
https://wordpress.org/news/2020/10/wordpress-5-5-2-security-and-maintenance-release/

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-11-05 13:50:28 UTC

Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1894959]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1894958]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-05 14:21:20 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.