Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-16222

Title: Wordpress Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-16222.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Sep 11, 2019

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2019-16222: WordPress before 5.2.3 has an issue with URL sanitization in wp_kses_bad_protocol_once in wp-includes/kses.php that can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Impacted Vendors

wordpress 1

Reference Links

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/45997 https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/30ac67579559fe42251b5a9f887211bf61a8ed68 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00023.html https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8 https://wordpress.org/news/2019/09/wordpress-5-2-3-security-and-maintenance-release/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9867 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/45997 https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/30ac67579559fe42251b5a9f887211bf61a8ed68 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00023.html https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8 https://wordpress.org/news/2019/09/wordpress-5-2-3-security-and-maintenance-release/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9867 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4599 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4677

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-16222 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 11, 2019 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.