cve/2019/CVE-2019-16523.md

CVE-2019-16523

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4
• https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_Manager
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/SexyBeast233/SecBooks