CVE-2022-3991 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Photospace Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via its settings parameters saved via the update() function in versions up to, and including, 2.3.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00097.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Photospace Gallery Project	Photospace Gallery

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:photospace_gallery_project:photospace_gallery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/photospace/trunk/photospace.php#L87
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories-continued/#CVE-2022-3991

History

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2022-11-29T20:43:32.624Z

Updated: 2025-01-23T20:48:47.703Z

Reserved: 2022-11-14T15:44:27.765Z

Link: CVE-2022-3991

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:53.729Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-29T21:15:11.523

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:20:41.370

Link: CVE-2022-3991

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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