CVE-2019-16523

Summary

CVECVE-2019-16523
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-16 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-18 20:25:00 UTC
DescriptionThe events-manager plugin through 5.9.5 for WordPress (aka Events Manager) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of data provided to the attribute map_style of shortcodes (locations_map and events_map) provided by the plugin.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wp-events-plugin Events Manager All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Events Manager – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org MISC wordpress.org Product, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - [SBA-ADV-20190913-03] CVE-2019-16523: WordPress Plugin - Events Manager <= 5.9.5 - Stored XSS MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
advisories/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_Manager at public · sbaresearch/advisories · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Events Manager < 5.9.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) MISC wpvulndb.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 730716 WordPress Plugin Events Manager Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

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