CVE-2022-4477 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin before 4.1.6 does not validate and escapes 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 against logged-in 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 0.00151.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Smashballoon	Smash Balloon Social Post Feed

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:smashballoon:smash_balloon_social_post_feed:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-51821	The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin before 4.1.6 does not validate and escapes 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 against logged-in admins.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c32a4c58-9f2b-4afa-9a21-4b4a5c4c4c41

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: 2023-01-16T15:38:01.295Z

Updated: 2025-04-04T17:55:02.332Z

Reserved: 2022-12-14T07:27:04.369Z

Link: CVE-2022-4477

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:44.829Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-16T16:15:12.443

Modified: 2025-04-04T18:15:45.060

Link: CVE-2022-4477

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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