CVE-2022-2574 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Meks Easy Social Share WordPress plugin before 1.2.8 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)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00288.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Mekshq	Meks Easy Social Share

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mekshq:meks_easy_social_share:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-34827	The Meks Easy Social Share WordPress plugin before 1.2.8 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)

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9dec8ac7-befd-4c9d-9a9e-7da9e395dbf2

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00092}`	epss `{'score': 0.00115}`

Tue, 13 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-13T19:20:43.326Z

Reserved: 2022-07-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-2574

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:39:08.073Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-17T12:15:09.890

Modified: 2025-05-13T20:15:22.000

Link: CVE-2022-2574

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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