CVE-2022-4295 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Show All Comments WordPress plugin before 7.0.1 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against a logged in high privilege users such as admin.

Published: 2023-01-16

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 14.2% Moderate

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

Show All Comments

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 7.0.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:appjetty:show_all_comments:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

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 0.14159.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4ced1a4d-0c1f-42ad-8473-241c68b92b56

History

Tue, 08 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

Appjetty Show All Comments

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-01-16T15:38:09.605Z

Updated: 2025-04-08T20:12:17.343Z

Reserved: 2022-12-06T04:04:16.644Z

Link: CVE-2022-4295

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:50.095Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-16T16:15:11.213

Modified: 2025-04-08T21:15:45.300

Link: CVE-2022-4295

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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