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CVE-2019-16332

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In the api-bearer-auth plugin before 20190907 for WordPress, the server parameter is not correctly filtered in the swagger-config.yaml.php file, and it is possible to inject JavaScript code, aka XSS.

Affected products

• Api Bearer Auth Project Api Bearer Auth: before 2019-09-07 — fixed in 2019-09-07

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Api Bearer Auth Project Api Bearer Auth 2019-09-07. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154369/WordPress-API-Bearer-Auth-20181229-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2152730
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/api-bearer-auth/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9868
• https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154369/WordPress-API-Bearer-Auth-20181229-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2152730
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/api-bearer-auth/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9868

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