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CVE-2019-12566

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Statistics plugin through 12.6.5 for Wordpress has stored XSS in includes/class-wp-statistics-pages.php. This is related to an account with the Editor role creating a post with a title that contains JavaScript, to attack an admin user.

Affected products

• WP Statistics: through 12.6.5

References

• https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/commit/aec4359975344f75385ae1ec257575d8131d6ec2
• https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/issues/271
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/#developers
• https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/commit/aec4359975344f75385ae1ec257575d8131d6ec2
• https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/issues/271
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/#developers

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