CVE-2019-16523

Events Manager <= 5.9.5 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

mediumImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

6.4

CVSS Score

6.4

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

5.9.6

Patched in

1560d

Time to patch

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Low

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=5.9.5

PublishedOctober 16, 2019

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginevents-manager

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/249acca6-49b4-4ddf-af75-31f68921fc19?source=api-prod

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