CVE-2022-3922 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Broken Link Checker WordPress plugin before 1.11.20 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: 2022-12-28

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

Broken Link Checker

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.11.20

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:managewp:broken_link_checker:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-43256	The Broken Link Checker WordPress plugin before 1.11.20 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 0.00326.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/78054bd7-cdc2-4b14-9b5c-30f10e802d6b

History

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Managewp Broken Link Checker

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-28T10:37:25.022Z

Updated: 2025-04-10T20:35:32.022Z

Reserved: 2022-11-10T08:05:05.412Z

Link: CVE-2022-3922

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:20:58.803Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-28T11:15:09.233

Modified: 2025-04-10T21:15:44.220

Link: CVE-2022-3922

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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