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CVE-2019-11886

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The WaspThemes Visual CSS Style Editor (aka yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer) plugin before 7.2.1 for WordPress allows yp_option_update CSRF, as demonstrated by use of yp_remote_get to obtain admin access.

Affected products

• Visual CSS Style Editor: before 7.2.1 — fixed in 7.2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Visual CSS Style Editor 7.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9256
• https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/04/09/recently-closed-visual-css-style-editor-wordpress-plugin-contains-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-that-leads-to-option-update-vulnerability/
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer-exploited-in-the-wild/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9256
• https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/04/09/recently-closed-visual-css-style-editor-wordpress-plugin-contains-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-that-leads-to-option-update-vulnerability/
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer-exploited-in-the-wild/

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