{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36854 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-36854 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2020-36854 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in cloughit Async JavaScript, published on 18 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-36854 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-36854 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in cloughit Async JavaScript, published on 18 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36854 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: cloughit Async JavaScript. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36854/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36854/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-36854","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36854/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-36854","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-c384-m2mr-c4gg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers can inject malicious scripts via missing authorization and sanitization in the Async JavaScript plugin, affecting WordPress sites.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":6.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"The Async JavaScript plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including,  2.19.07.14. This is due to missing authorization checks on the aj_steps AJAX aciton along with a lack on sanitization on the settings saved via the function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber level permissions and above to inject malicious web scripts into a page that execute whenever a user accesses that page.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Async JavaScript \u003c= 2.19.07.14 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2020-36854","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"DCMTK dcmqrscp parseQuota stack-based overflow","id":"CVE-2020-36855"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"10WebMapBuilder \u003c= 1.0.63 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Plugin Settings Change","id":"CVE-2020-36853"},"products":["Async JavaScript"],"published":"2025-10-18","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["cloughit"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers can inject malicious scripts via missing authorization and sanitization in the Async JavaScript plugin, affecting WordPress sites.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36854/"}