CVE-2022-4824

Published Feb 6, 2023

Last updated a year ago

CVSS medium 5.4

Overview

Description: The WP Blog and Widgets WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.
Source: contact@wpscan.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.4
Impact score: 2.7
Exploitability score: 2.3
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:essentialplugin:wp_blog_and_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "5EFD3A58-BDA9-4D3E-A6DD-CB317E08106A",
            "versionEndExcluding": "2.3.1"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References