CVE-2019-13463

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
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: none known
Published: 2020-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An XSS vulnerability in qcopd-shortcode-generator.php in the Simple Link Directory plugin before 7.3.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, because esc_html is not called for the "echo get_the_title()" or "echo $term->name" statement.

Affected products

quantumcloud Simple Link Directory: before 7.3.5 — fixed in 7.3.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: quantumcloud Simple Link Directory 7.3.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fsimple-link-directory&old=2111131&new_path=%2Fsimple-link-directory&new=2111132&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-link-directory/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fsimple-link-directory&old=2111131&new_path=%2Fsimple-link-directory&new=2111132&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-link-directory/#developers

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