What is CVE-2019-13422?

CVE-2019-13422 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Floragunn Search Guard Kibana Plugin, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-08-23.

How severe is CVE-2019-13422?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-13422 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Floragunn Search Guard Kibana Plugin

CVE-2019-13422

Search Guard Kibana Plugin versions before 5.6.8-7 and before 6.x.y-12 had an issue that an attacker can redirect the user to a potentially malicious site upon Kibana login.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-08-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 57.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Floragunn Search Guard Kibana Plugin — versions unspecified, unspecified
Search-Guard Search Guard

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

vin01/CVEs

References

search-guard.com/cve-advisory/ (Vendor Advisory)
docs.search-guard.com/6.x-25/changelog-kibana-6.x-12 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-13422?: CVE-2019-13422 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Floragunn Search Guard Kibana Plugin, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-08-23.
How severe is CVE-2019-13422?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-13422 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.