CVE-2022-4824 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP Blog and Widgets WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 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 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 0.0037.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Essentialplugin	Wp Blog And Widget

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:essentialplugin:wp_blog_and_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-52101	The WP Blog and Widgets WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 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 admins.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9af8e425-c477-4e2b-9445-70ffb769f3f0

History

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:15:00 +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: 2023-02-06T19:59:10.841Z

Updated: 2025-03-26T13:48:50.450Z

Reserved: 2022-12-29T08:42:22.879Z

Link: CVE-2022-4824

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:55:44.216Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-06T20:15:12.303

Modified: 2025-03-26T14:15:26.187

Link: CVE-2022-4824

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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