CVE-2022-3462

Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting

The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected

Highlight Focus

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

EPSS

0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 47th percentile

Published

2022-11-07

Updated

2025-05-01

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b583de48-1332-4984-8c0c-a7ed4a2397cd

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry