The Lever PDF Embedder plugin 4.4 for WordPress does not block the distribution of polyglot PDF documents that are valid JAR archives. Note: It has been argued that "The vulnerability reported in PDF Embedder Plugin is not valid as the plugin itself doesn't control or manage the file upload process. It only serves the uploaded PDF files and the responsibility of uploading PDF file remains with the Site owner of Wordpress installation, the upload of PDF file is managed by Wordpress core and not by PDF Embedder Plugin. Control & block of polyglot file is required to be taken care at the time of upload, not on showing the file. Moreover, the reference mentions retrieving the files from the browser cache and manually renaming it to jar for executing the file. That refers to a two step non-connected steps which has nothing to do with PDF Embedder.
CVE-2019-19589
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
Also known asEUVD-2019-9205 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019 — if the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if not, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 75EG Risk 75/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, or retire the product. - EPSS PROB
- 1.8%
- EPSS %ILE
- 78th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 1.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, or retire the product.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
December 5, 2019
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Oct 5, 2026PDF Embedder – PDF Viewer & Embed PDF Files for WordPress – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-embedder/#developersWeakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 71× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 99 of 221 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 122 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
- 2026-11-01 20:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 20:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-11-01 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
- 2026-10-31 19:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 19:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
- 2026-10-30 19:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-30 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
- 2026-10-29 18:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 18:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
- 2026-10-28 18:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 18:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
- 2026-10-27 17:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 17:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
- 2026-10-26 17:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-26 17:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-26 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
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- 2026-10-25 16:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-24 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
- 2026-10-24 15:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 15:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-23 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
- 2026-10-23 15:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 15:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-22 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
- 2026-10-22 14:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 14:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-21 14:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-20 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
- 2026-10-20 13:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 13:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
- 2026-10-19 12:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 12:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
- 2026-10-18 11:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 09:49 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-17 10:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-16 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
- 2026-10-16 10:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 10:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
- 2026-10-15 09:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 09:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-14 06:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-13 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 77th percentile
- 2026-10-13 01:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m2h-6596-w2g6 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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