Vulnerability · Published Jan 6, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-36172

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 39.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Advanced Custom Fields plugin before 5.8.12 for WordPress mishandles the escaping of strings in Select2 dropdowns, potentially leading to XSS.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/#developers x_refsource_MISC