CVE-2019-16523

MediumCVSS 5.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.4/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_ManagerExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developersProduct, Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_ManagerExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developersProduct, Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 16, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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