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01 Record

CVE-2019-19979

A flaw in the WordPress plugin, WP Maintenance before 5.0.6, allowed attackers to enable a vulnerable site's maintenance mode and inject malicious code affecting site visitors. There was CSRF with

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score8.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:R

02 Description

A flaw in the WordPress plugin, WP Maintenance before 5.0.6, allowed attackers to enable a vulnerable site's maintenance mode and inject malicious code affecting site visitors. There was CSRF with

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
0.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 50.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2019-12-26 02:26Z6 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-05 02:32Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2019-12-26
Assigning CNA
mitre
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 8.8)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:R
Weaknesses
  • CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
  • CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Compound
Data version
5.1
Document digest
f6cca0b14cb3a5401b851ac4c818db01141d1c33436703f60cb852ec3ff6dc56

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
wp_maintenance_projectwp_maintenanceNot specified—

06 References