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Events Manager Plugin for WordPress < 5.9.6 Stored Cross-Site Scripting

medium Web App Scanning Plugin ID 114015

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Synopsis

Events Manager Plugin for WordPress < 5.9.6 Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The WordPress Events Manager Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) due to improper encoding and insertion of data provided to the attribute map_style of shortcodes.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Events Manager Plugin for WordPress 5.9.6 or latest.

See Also

https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 114015

Type: remote

Published: 9/13/2023

Updated: 9/20/2023

Scan Template: basic, full, pci, scan

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16523

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16523

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:a:wp-events-plugin:events_manager:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16523