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CVE-2019-16218

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-16218 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting WordPress versions prior to 5.2.3, specifically within stored comments. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts into a user's browser, requiring user interaction (UI:R) to trigger, and potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts (C:L/I:L). 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
< 5.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0181 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00023.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Jan/8
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
wordpress.org / news/2019/09/wordpress-5-2-3-security-and-maintenance-release
Release NotesVendor Advisory
wpvulndb.com / vulnerabilities/9861
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4599
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4677
Third Party Advisory