vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: wp-statistics: CVE-2019-12566: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 31, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The WP Statistics plugin through 12.6.5 for Wordpress has stored XSS in includes/class-wp-statistics-pages.php. This is related to an account with the Editor role creating a post with a title that contains JavaScript, to attack an admin user.

Solution

wp-statistics-plugin-cve-2019-12566
Title
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