CVE-2019-16523 - 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

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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

Published Oct 16, 2019

5.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.24%

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (5)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4
mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-7200
Advisory
https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_Manager
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers
x_refsource_MISCProductThird Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4		mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-7200		Advisory
https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_Manager		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers		x_refsource_MISCProductThird Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 16, 2019

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Sep 19, 2019

Link CVE-2019-16523

CISA Vulnrichment

No data

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-16523

Red Hat

No data

ENISA EUVD

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 16, 2019

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Link EUVD-2019-7200

GitHub

No data