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medium 6.1

CVE-2020-11027 json

Password reset links invalidation issue in WordPress

published 2020-04-30 6 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-wordpress-2020-11027 , BIT-wordpress-multisite-2020-11027 , EUVD-2020-3412 , GHSA-ww7v-jg8c-q6jw

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.6%
EPSS 13.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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).

Patch / fix

  • bitnami wordpress 3.7.33, 3.8.33, 3.9.31, 4.0.30, 4.1.30, 4.2.27, 4.3.23, 4.4.22, 4.5.21, 4.6.18, 4.7.17, 4.8.13, 4.9.14, 5.0.9, 5.1.5, 5.2.6, 5.3.3, 5.4.1
  • bitnami wordpress-multisite 3.7.33, 3.8.33, 3.9.31, 4.0.30, 4.1.30, 4.2.27, 4.3.23, 4.4.22, 4.5.21, 4.6.18, 4.7.17, 4.8.13, 4.9.14, 5.0.9, 5.1.5, 5.2.6, 5.3.3, 5.4.1
  • wordpress wordpress 3.7.33, 3.8.33, 3.9.31, 4.0.30, 4.1.30, 4.2.27, 4.3.23, 4.4.22, 4.5.21, 4.6.18, 4.7.17, 4.8.13, 4.9.14, 5.0.9, 5.1.5, 5.2.6, 5.3.3
  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.4.1+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11027

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-11027 updated cvss 6.1

wordpress: password reset link does not expire which could resul in credentials disclosure

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-51531)

Exploit prediction

13.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-51531 WordPress Theme Medic v1.0.0 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password webapps, 2023-06-19

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami wordpress
>=3.7.0, <3.7.33
>=3.8.0, <3.8.33
>=3.9.0, <3.9.31
>=4.0.0, <4.0.30
>=4.1.0, <4.1.30
>=4.2.0, <4.2.27
>=4.3.0, <4.3.23
>=4.4.0, <4.4.22
>=4.5.0, <4.5.21
>=4.6.0, <4.6.18
>=4.7.0, <4.7.17
>=4.8.0, <4.8.13
>=4.9.0, <4.9.14
>=5.0.0, <5.0.9
>=5.1.0, <5.1.5
>=5.2.0, <5.2.6
>=5.3.0, <5.3.3
>=5.4.0, <5.4.1
3.7.33
3.8.33
3.9.31
4.0.30
4.1.30
4.2.27
4.3.23
4.4.22
4.5.21
4.6.18
4.7.17
4.8.13
4.9.14
5.0.9
5.1.5
5.2.6
5.3.3
5.4.1
bitnami wordpress-multisite
>=3.7.0, <3.7.33
>=3.8.0, <3.8.33
>=3.9.0, <3.9.31
>=4.0.0, <4.0.30
>=4.1.0, <4.1.30
>=4.2.0, <4.2.27
>=4.3.0, <4.3.23
>=4.4.0, <4.4.22
>=4.5.0, <4.5.21
>=4.6.0, <4.6.18
>=4.7.0, <4.7.17
>=4.8.0, <4.8.13
>=4.9.0, <4.9.14
>=5.0.0, <5.0.9
>=5.1.0, <5.1.5
>=5.2.0, <5.2.6
>=5.3.0, <5.3.3
>=5.4.0, <5.4.1
3.7.33
3.8.33
3.9.31
4.0.30
4.1.30
4.2.27
4.3.23
4.4.22
4.5.21
4.6.18
4.7.17
4.8.13
4.9.14
5.0.9
5.1.5
5.2.6
5.3.3
5.4.1

Affected products

  • WordPress WordPress

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-672 Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release
  • CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of WordPress/wordpress-develop published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.