CVE-2022-3391 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Retain Live Chat WordPress plugin through 0.1 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)

Published: 2022-10-25

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Retain Live Chat

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0.1`	affected	≤ 0.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:retain:retain_live_chat:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-42768	The Retain Live Chat WordPress plugin through 0.1 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)

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 0.00415.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ecc51420-ee50-4e39-a38d-09686f1996f2

History

Fri, 09 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Retain Retain Live Chat

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-10-25T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-09T19:07:22.850Z

Reserved: 2022-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3391

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:07:06.531Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-25T17:15:57.220

Modified: 2025-05-09T19:15:56.590

Link: CVE-2022-3391

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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