CVE-2020-1890: WhatsApp

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A URL validation issue in WhatsApp for Android prior to v2.20.11 and WhatsApp Business for Android prior to v2.20.2 could have caused the recipient of a sticker message containing deliberately malformed data to load an image from a sender-controlled URL without user interaction.

Affected products

• WhatsApp WhatsApp: before 2.20.11 (fixed in 2.20.11)
• WhatsApp WhatsApp Business: before 2.20.2 (fixed in 2.20.2)

Published 2020-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.