vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: simple-link-directory: CVE-2019-13463: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 9, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

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-greater thanname" statement.

Solution

simple-link-directory-plugin-cve-2019-13463
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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