CVE-2022-3838 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WPUpper Share Buttons WordPress plugin through 3.42 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 0.00123.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Wpupper Share Buttons Project	Wpupper Share Buttons

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpupper_share_buttons_project:wpupper_share_buttons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-43178	The WPUpper Share Buttons WordPress plugin through 3.42 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/2dc82bd7-651f-4af0-ad2a-c20a38eea0d0

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +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: 2022-12-05T16:50:38.242Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T15:03:37.631Z

Reserved: 2022-11-02T13:25:40.662Z

Link: CVE-2022-3838

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:20:58.762Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-05T17:15:10.273

Modified: 2025-04-23T15:15:50.400

Link: CVE-2022-3838

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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