Medium severity · published Mar 20, 2020
CVE-2019-13463
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…
6.1
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SL
Simple Link Directory · Quantumcloud
before 7.3.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13463
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13463
Patch
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fsimple-link-directory&old=2111131&new_path=%2Fsimple-link-directory&new=2111132&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Product
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-link-directory/#developers
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