THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-6780
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2019-6780

Wise Chat vulnerability

CVSS
6.1
EPSS
4.9%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The Wise Chat plugin before 2.7 for WordPress mishandles external links because rendering/filters/post/WiseChatLinksPostFilter.php omits noopener and noreferrer.
Affected vendor
Kaine
Affected product
Wise Chat
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-01-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-6780

  • Confirm whether Kaine Wise Chat is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-6780.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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