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CVE-2018-13137
The Events Manager plugin 5.9.4 for WordPress has XSS via the dbem_event_reapproved_email_body parameter to the…
- 4.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 32% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Events Manager plugin 5.9.4 for WordPress has XSS via the dbem_event_reapproved_email_body parameter to the wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=event&page=events-manager-options URI.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://gist.github.com/ansarisec/12737c207c0851d52865ed60c08891b7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://ansawaf.blogspot.com/2019/04/cve-2018-13137-xss-in-events-manager.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9612 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-5086 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-13137)Record last updated .