CVE-2022-1995

The Malware Scanner WordPress plugin before 4.5.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, leading to malicious users with administrator privileges to store malicious Javascript code leading to Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

CVSS v3.1

4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

3.5 LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 45th percentile

Published

2022-06-27

Updated

2024-08-03

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/62fb399d-3327-45d0-b10f-769d2d164903

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2022-1994
• CVE-2022-1996
• CVE-2022-1993
• CVE-2022-1997
• CVE-2022-1992
• CVE-2022-2000