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CVE-2019-16523

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The events-manager plugin through 5.9.5 for WordPress (aka Events Manager) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of data provided to the attribute map_style of shortcodes (locations_map and events_map) provided by the plugin.

Affected products

• netweblogic Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!: through 5.9.5

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4
• https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_Manager
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/4
• https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-03_WordPress_Plugin_Events_Manager
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9916

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