What is CVE-2019-6990?

CVE-2019-6990 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zoneminder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-01-28.

How severe is CVE-2019-6990?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Zoneminder

CVE-2019-6990

A stored-self XSS exists in web/skins/classic/views/zones.php of ZoneMinder through 1.32.3, allowing an attacker to execute HTML or JavaScript code in a vulnerable field via a crafted Zone NAME to the index.php?view=zones&action=zoneImage&mid=1 URI.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-01-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (51.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 51.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Zoneminder

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/a3e8fd4fd5b579865f35aac3b964bc78d5b7a94a (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/issues/2444 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-6990?: CVE-2019-6990 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zoneminder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-01-28.
How severe is CVE-2019-6990?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.