PT-2019-14685 · WordPress · Events Manager

Tobias Fink · Published 2019-10-16 · Updated 2024-10-08 · CVE-2019-16523

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Events Manager plugin versions through 5.9.5

Description The issue arises from improper encoding and insertion of data provided to the map style attribute of shortcodes, specifically locations map and events map, leading to Stored XSS.

Recommendations For versions through 5.9.5, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-16523

Affected Products

Events Manager

References · 6

• 🔥 https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_Manager · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16523 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16523 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers · Note