What is CVE-2019-6992?

CVE-2019-6992 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zoneminder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-01-28.

How severe is CVE-2019-6992?

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

XSS in Zoneminder

CVE-2019-6992

A stored-self XSS exists in web/skins/classic/views/controlcaps.php of ZoneMinder through 1.32.3, allowing an attacker to execute HTML or JavaScript code in a vulnerable field via a long NAME or PROTOCOL to the index.php?view=controlcaps URI.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-01-28 · 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 (58.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 58.0% 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

Zoneminder

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/issues/2445 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/8c5687ca308e441742725e0aff9075779fa1a498 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-6992?: CVE-2019-6992 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zoneminder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-01-28.
How severe is CVE-2019-6992?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.