What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-17574

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

An issue was discovered in the Popup Maker plugin before 1.8.13 for WordPress. An unauthenticated attacker can partially control the arguments of the do_action function to invoke certain popmake_ or pum_ methods, as demonstrated by controlling content and delivery of popmake-system-info.txt (aka the "support debug text file").

Affected products

• danieliser Popup Maker – Boost Sales, Conversions, Optins, Subscribers with the Ultimate WP Popup Builder: before 1.8.13 — fixed in 1.8.13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: danieliser Popup Maker – Boost Sales, Conversions, Optins, Subscribers with the Ultimate WP Popup Builder 1.8.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://blog.redyops.com/wordpress-plugin-popup-maker/
• https://github.com/PopupMaker/Popup-Maker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9907
• http://blog.redyops.com/wordpress-plugin-popup-maker/
• https://github.com/PopupMaker/Popup-Maker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9907

Get alerted when CVE-2019-17574 or the next vulnerability affects your stack