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Vulnerability · Published Oct 31, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-28032

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the wordpress package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 15.7% (higher than 97% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)15.7%top 3.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

WordPress before 5.5.2 mishandles deserialization requests in wp-includes/Requests/Utility/FilteredIterator.php.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12wordpress5.5.3+dfsg1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28032
Debian:13wordpress5.5.3+dfsg1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28032
Debian:14wordpress5.5.3+dfsg1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28032
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwordpressno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-28032
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSwordpressno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-28032
Ubuntu:25.10wordpressno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-28032
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSwordpressno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-28032
Ubuntu:26.10wordpressno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-28032

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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References