CVE-2019-16523

CVSS V2 Low 3.5 CVSS V3 Medium 5.4
Description
The 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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-16523
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-10-16T15:15:15
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-18T20:25:36
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wp-events-plugin:events_manager:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 5.9.5
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 3.5
  • Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 6.8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • LOW
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.4
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.3
  • Impact Score
  • 2.7
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers Product Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_Manager Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16523
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16523
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:01:14 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 04:24:48 2019-10-16T15:15Z 2019-10-16T15:15:15 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 04:24:48 2019-10-18T20:25:36 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 04:24:48 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated