4.8 - CVE-2019-16522

Executive Summary

This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.

Informations
Name	CVE-2019-16522	First vendor Publication	2019-10-16
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2019-10-20

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Overall CVSS Score	4.8
Base Score	4.8	Environmental Score	4.8
impact SubScore	2.7	Temporal Score	4.8
Exploitabality Sub Score	1.7

Attack Vector	Network	Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	High	User Interaction	Required
Scope	Changed	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Integrity Impact	Low	Availability Impact	None
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score	3.5	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	2.9	Attack Complexity	Medium
Cvss Expoit Score	6.8	Authentication	Requires single instance
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Detail

The eu-cookie-law plugin through 3.0.6 for WordPress (aka EU Cookie Law (GDPR)) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding of several configuration options in the admin area and the displayed cookie consent message. This affects Font Color, Background Color, and the Disable Cookie text. An attacker with high privileges can attack other users.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16522

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

%	Id	Name
100 %	CWE-79	Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

Sources (Detail)

Source	Url
MISC	https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2019/SBA-ADV-20190913-0... https://wordpress.org/plugins/eu-cookie-law/#developers https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9918