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CVE-2019-12934

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in the wp-code-highlightjs plugin through 0.6.2 for WordPress. wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-code-highlight-js allows CSRF, as demonstrated by an XSS payload in the hljs_additional_css parameter.

Affected products

• Wp-Code-Highlightjs Project Wp-Code-Highlightjs: through 0.6.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109331
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-code-highlightjs/#developers
• https://zeroauth.ltd/blog/2019/07/17/cve-2019-12934-wp-code-highlightjs-wordpress-plugin-csrf-leads-to-blog-wide-injected-script-html/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109331
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-code-highlightjs/#developers
• https://zeroauth.ltd/blog/2019/07/17/cve-2019-12934-wp-code-highlightjs-wordpress-plugin-csrf-leads-to-blog-wide-injected-script-html/

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