CVE-2022-4260 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP-Ban WordPress plugin before 1.69.1 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
Wp-ban Project	Wp-ban

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wp-ban_project:wp-ban:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d0cf24be-df87-4e1f-aae7-e9684c88e7db

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.01699}`	epss `{'score': 0.01859}`

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +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: 2023-01-02T21:49:42.572Z

Updated: 2025-04-10T18:33:18.971Z

Reserved: 2022-12-01T18:45:11.957Z

Link: CVE-2022-4260

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:49.926Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-02T22:15:16.750

Modified: 2025-04-10T19:15:52.187

Link: CVE-2022-4260

Redhat

No data.

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