CVE-2022-4005 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Donation Button WordPress plugin through 4.0.0 does not sanitize and escapes some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Published: 2022-12-12

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

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

Donation Button

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	≤ 4.0.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:donation_button_project:donation_button:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-51386	The Donation Button WordPress plugin through 4.0.0 does not sanitize and escapes some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

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 Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00252.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/61d5c9b8-5c21-4ab5-b31c-e13ca19ea25c

History

Tue, 22 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'}`

Subscriptions

Donation Button Project Donation Button

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-12T17:54:39.478Z

Updated: 2025-04-22T15:07:18.933Z

Reserved: 2022-11-15T19:34:02.731Z

Link: CVE-2022-4005

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.146Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-12T18:15:13.023

Modified: 2025-04-22T15:16:08.433

Link: CVE-2022-4005

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.

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