CVE-2022-4697 — Cross-site Scripting in Profilepress

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting2 documents2 sources
Severity
4.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 39.14%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Properfraction Profilepress
Timeline
PublishedDec 23
Latest updateJul 6

Description

The ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wp_user_cover_default_image_url’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 4.5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations wh…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 1.7 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages1 packages

Patches

Patch: plugins.trac.wordpress.org ↗Patch: plugins.trac.wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-683h-9pw3-vc53: The ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wp_user_cover_default_image_url’ parameter in versions up↗2023-07-06
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