CVE-2022-3833

Published Nov 28, 2022

Last updated a year ago

CVSS medium 4.8

Overview

Description: The Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup WordPress plugin through 1.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Source: contact@wpscan.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.8
Impact score: 2.7
Exploitability score: 1.7
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:thematosoup:fancier_author_box:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "9E24635E-513B-42CD-917B-6FA8F3892F40",
            "versionEndIncluding": "1.4"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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