CVE-2019-16520

Summary

CVECVE-2019-16520
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-16 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-18 20:22:00 UTC
DescriptionThe all-in-one-seo-pack plugin before 3.2.7 for WordPress (aka All in One SEO Pack) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding of the SEO-specific description for posts provided by the plugin via unsafe placeholder replacement.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Semperplugins All In One Seo Pack All All All All
Application Semperplugins All In One Seo Pack All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
All in One SEO Pack - Changelog | Semper Plugins MISC semperplugins.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
oss-security - [SBA-ADV-20190913-04] CVE-2019-16520: WordPress Plugin - All in One SEO Pack <= 3.2.6 - Stored XSS MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
All In One SEO Pack < 3.2.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) MISC wpvulndb.com Third Party Advisory
Escape meta description output · Issue #2888 · awesomemotive/all-in-one-seo-pack · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org MISC wordpress.org Product, Third Party Advisory
advisories/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-04_WordPress_Plugin_All_in_One_SEO_Pack at public · sbaresearch/advisories · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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