CVE-2022-4656 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) WordPress plugin before 6.5 does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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
Codepress	Visitor Statistics

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:codepress:visitor_statistics:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05976ed8-5a26-4eae-adb2-0ea3b2722391

History

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Codepress Codepress visitor Statistics
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:plugins-market:wp_visitor_statistics::::::wordpress::*	cpe:2.3:a:codepress:visitor_statistics:::::-:wordpress::
Vendors & Products	Plugins-market Plugins-market wp Visitor Statistics	Codepress Codepress visitor Statistics

Thu, 20 Mar 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: 2023-02-13T14:32:19.074Z

Updated: 2025-03-20T18:36:55.634Z

Reserved: 2022-12-22T10:14:44.194Z

Link: CVE-2022-4656

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:38.893Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:18.590

Modified: 2026-03-06T19:34:04.627

Link: CVE-2022-4656

Redhat

No data.

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