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CVE-2019-16289

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-16289 describes an authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the insert-php (Woody ad snippets) plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 2.2.8. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.4) allows a low-privileged attacker to inject malicious scripts via the winp_item parameter, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webcraftic:woody_ad_snippets:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0103 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 15,222 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

generaleg0x01.com / 2019/09/13/xss-woody
ExploitThird Party Advisory
wordpress.org / plugins/insert-php
Release Notes
wpvulndb.com / vulnerabilities/9880
Third Party Advisory