CVE-2022-4242 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The WP Google Review Slider WordPress plugin before 11.6 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: 2022-12-26

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

WP Google Review Slider

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 11.6

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ljapps:wp_google_review_slider:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-51600	The WP Google Review Slider WordPress plugin before 11.6 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 0.00288.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d7f89335-630c-47c6-bebf-92f556caa087

History

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Ljapps Wp Google Review Slider

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-26T12:28:19.122Z

Updated: 2025-04-14T13:26:04.172Z

Reserved: 2022-12-01T02:50:29.671Z

Link: CVE-2022-4242

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:49.867Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T13:15:13.903

Modified: 2025-04-14T14:15:23.247

Link: CVE-2022-4242

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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