CVE-2022-4299 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Metricool WordPress plugin before 1.18 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: 2023-01-16

Score: 4.8 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

Metricool

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.18

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:metricool:metricool:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-51655	The Metricool WordPress plugin before 1.18 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 0.00207.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/169c5611-ed10-4cc3-bd07-09b365adf303

History

Fri, 04 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

Metricool Metricool

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-01-16T15:38:12.110Z

Updated: 2025-04-04T20:25:59.005Z

Reserved: 2022-12-06T09:36:53.615Z

Link: CVE-2022-4299

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:50.111Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-16T16:15:11.283

Modified: 2025-04-04T21:15:41.903

Link: CVE-2022-4299

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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