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CVE-2019-16524
The easy-fancybox plugin before 1.8.18 for WordPress (aka Easy FancyBox) is susceptible to Stored XSS in the Settings Menu…
Medium4.8EPSS 1.0%
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- mitre
Description
The easy-fancybox plugin before 1.8.18 for WordPress (aka Easy FancyBox) is susceptible to Stored XSS in the Settings Menu inc/class-easyfancybox.php due to improper encoding of arbitrarily submitted settings parameters. This occurs because there is no inline styles output filter.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (3)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-fancybox/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190911-01_Easy_FancyBox_WP_Plugin_Stored_XSS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9891 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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