CVE-2022-4198 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP Social Sharing WordPress plugin through 2.2 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 0.00213.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Wp Social Sharing Project	Wp Social Sharing

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-51559	The WP Social Sharing WordPress plugin through 2.2 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-33
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba372400-96f7-45a9-9e89-5984ecc4d1e2

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00159}`	epss `{'score': 0.00175}`

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +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: 2023-01-02T21:49:15.457Z

Updated: 2025-04-10T19:07:29.012Z

Reserved: 2022-11-29T02:43:19.805Z

Link: CVE-2022-4198

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:49.637Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-02T22:15:16.433

Modified: 2025-04-10T19:15:51.387

Link: CVE-2022-4198

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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