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HistoryNov 07, 2022 - 10:15 a.m.

CVE-2022-3462

2022-11-0710:15:11
CWE-79
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highlight focus plugin
stored cross-site scripting
high privilege users
unfiltered_html capability

CVSS3

4.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

24.8%

The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 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)

Affected configurations

Nvd
Node
highlight_focus_projecthighlight_focusMatch1.1wordpress
VendorProductVersionCPE
highlight_focus_projecthighlight_focus1.1cpe:2.3:a:highlight_focus_project:highlight_focus:1.1:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS3

4.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

24.8%