CVE-2022-3837 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Uji Countdown WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 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).

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
Wpmanage	Uji Countdown

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpmanage:uji_countdown:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8554ca79-5a4b-49df-a75f-5faa4136bb8c

History

Thu, 24 Apr 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: 2022-12-05T16:50:31.492Z

Updated: 2025-04-24T13:30:26.153Z

Reserved: 2022-11-02T13:18:19.604Z

Link: CVE-2022-3837

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:20:58.405Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-05T17:15:10.207

Modified: 2025-04-24T14:15:35.467

Link: CVE-2022-3837

Redhat

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