CVE-2022-4474

The Easy Social Feed WordPress plugin before 6.4.0 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 admin.

CVSS v3 5.4 MEDIUM

5.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.3 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3acc6940-13ec-40fb-8471-6b2f0445c543	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3acc6940-13ec-40fb-8471-6b2f0445c543	Exploit Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:easysocialfeed:easy_social_feed:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 07:35

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3acc6940-13ec-40fb-8471-6b2f0445c543 - Exploit, Third Party Advisory~~	() https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3acc6940-13ec-40fb-8471-6b2f0445c543 - Exploit, Third Party Advisory

07 Nov 2023, 03:57

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CWE	~~CWE-79~~

Information

Published : 2023-01-23 15:15

Updated : 2025-04-02 16:15

NVD link : CVE-2022-4474

Mitre link : CVE-2022-4474

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-4474

JSON object : View

Products Affected

easysocialfeed

easy_social_feed

CWE

No CWE.

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