CVE-2022-4474 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Easy Social Feed WordPress plugin before 6.4.0 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 contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

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 0.00137.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Easysocialfeed	Easy Social Feed

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:easysocialfeed:easy_social_feed:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-51818	The Easy Social Feed WordPress plugin before 6.4.0 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 contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3acc6940-13ec-40fb-8471-6b2f0445c543

History

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +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: 2023-01-23T14:31:37.923Z

Updated: 2025-04-02T15:43:21.574Z

Reserved: 2022-12-14T04:33:53.898Z

Link: CVE-2022-4474

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:44.982Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-23T15:15:14.800

Modified: 2025-04-02T16:15:24.957

Link: CVE-2022-4474

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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