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CVE-2020-4049

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-4049 is a low-severity self-XSS vulnerability affecting WordPress versions prior to 5.4.2, and various older patched versions. It allows for JavaScript execution in the wp-admin themes page if an administrator uploads a specially crafted theme folder name. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 2.4 (LOW) due to requiring high privileges (PR:H) and user interaction (UI:R), with no impact on confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.7, < 3.7.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.8, < 3.8.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.9, < 3.9.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0, < 4.0.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.1, < 4.1.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

2.4LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0275 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 289 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/404f397b4012fd9d382e55bf7d206c1317f01148
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-87h4-phjv-rm6p
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00011.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/773N2ZV7QEMBGKH6FBKI6Q5S3YJMW357
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ODNHXVJS25YVWYQHOCICXTLIN5UYJFDN
wordpress.org / news/2020/06/wordpress-5-4-2-security-and-maintenance-release
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4709
Third Party Advisory