CVE-2022-4698 — 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

Description

The ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several form fields 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 where unfiltered_html has been…

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-vq96-hjjp-w987: The ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several form fields in versions up to, and including, 4↗2022-12-23
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