CVE-2022-4488 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Widgets on Pages WordPress plugin before 1.8.0 does not validate and escape its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Widgets On Pages Project	Widgets On Pages

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:widgets_on_pages_project:widgets_on_pages:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e52c18a9-550a-40b1-a413-0e06e5b4aabc

History

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-13T14:32:29.402Z

Updated: 2025-03-21T19:46:57.252Z

Reserved: 2022-12-14T09:08:38.596Z

Link: CVE-2022-4488

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:45.024Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:17.207

Modified: 2025-03-21T20:15:13.943

Link: CVE-2022-4488

Redhat

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