CVSS 3.1
8.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCVE-2020-11027
High (8.1). EPSS 14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In affected versions of WordPress, a password reset link emailed to a user does not expire upon changing the user password. Access would be needed to the email account of the user by a malicious party for successful execution. 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, 3.7.33).
Severity
- EPSS
- 14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-640, CWE-672
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- wordpress:wordpress
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173034/WordPress-Theme-Medic-1.0.0-Weak-Password-Recovery-Mechanism.html
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-ww7v-jg8c-q6jw
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00011.html
- https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-4-1/#security-updates
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677