CVE-2019-16523

MEDIUM

Events Manager <5.9.5 - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Product, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 54.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
pixelite/events_manager < 5.9.5
Published Oct 16, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026