CVE-2022-4460 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Sidebar Widgets by CodeLights WordPress plugin through 1.4 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, which could be used against high-privilege users such as admins.

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 0.0015.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets Project	Codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets_project:codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-51804	The Sidebar Widgets by CodeLights WordPress plugin through 1.4 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, which could be used against high-privilege users such as admins.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/034c4c75-42a4-4884-b63f-f9d4d2d6aebc

History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +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: 2023-01-16T15:38:02.964Z

Updated: 2025-04-04T17:50:45.561Z

Reserved: 2022-12-13T20:35:08.385Z

Link: CVE-2022-4460

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:44.570Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-16T16:15:12.097

Modified: 2025-04-04T18:15:44.720

Link: CVE-2022-4460

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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