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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.63%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 resultant XSS.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.63% probability · 50th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79, CWE-352
- Affected
- wp maintenance project/wp maintenance
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9954Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/11/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-wp-maintenance-plugin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9954Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/11/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-wp-maintenance-plugin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.