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CVE-2019-19708

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-19708 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the VisualEditor extension for MediaWiki, affecting versions up to 1.34. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker through user interaction, specifically by pasting malicious content containing a data-ve-clipboard-key attribute, leading to low 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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:visual_editor:*:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-19708Moderate

mediawiki: pasted content containing an element with a specific attribute allows for XSS

Dec 11, 2019

References

gerrit.wikimedia.org / r/q/I1f99458fd2c4f6b2460dfe7a93b330ddee4400b6
ExploitVendor Advisory
phabricator.wikimedia.org / T239209
ExploitVendor Advisory