Events Manager <= 5.9.5 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2019-16523
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published October 16, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Tobias Fink
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

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug events-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.9.5
Patched Version
  • 5.9.6
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