WP Maintenance <= 5.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2019-19979
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published November 19, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

A flaw in the WordPress plugin, WP Maintenance before 5.0.6, allowed attackers to enable a vulnerable site's maintenance mode and inject malicious code affecting site visitors. There was CSRF with resultant XSS.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-maintenance (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.5
Patched Version
  • 5.0.6
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