CVE-2022-3539 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Testimonials WordPress plugin before 2.7, super-testimonial-pro WordPress plugin before 1.0.8 do not sanitize and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

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.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Themepoints	Testimonials Testimonials Pro

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:themepoints:testimonials::::::wordpress::*
	cpe:2.3:a:themepoints:testimonials_pro::::::wordpress::*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ab3b0052-1a74-4ba3-b6d2-78cfe56029db

History

Wed, 30 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: 2022-11-14T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-30T15:31:27.984Z

Reserved: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3539

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:14:02.480Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-14T15:15:50.070

Modified: 2025-04-30T16:15:23.100

Link: CVE-2022-3539

Redhat

No data.

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