CVE-2022-4198 WP Social Sharing <= 2.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS

2023-01-0221:49:15

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www.cve.org

wp social sharing

admin

stored xss

wordpress

cve-2022-4198

cross-site scripting

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

23.3%

JSON

The WP Social Sharing WordPress plugin through 2.2 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).

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "Unknown",
    "product": "WP Social Sharing",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "2.2"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "collectionURL": "https://wordpress.org/plugins"
  }
]