CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4519
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-12-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The WP User plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via its settings parameters in versions up to, and including, 7.0 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 disabled.
Affected configurations
• wpseeds wp user (<= 7.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user/#description Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8ee21796-5340-4f84-b1c4-a95137a27223?source=cve www.wordfence.com
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user/#description Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8ee21796-5340-4f84-b1c4-a95137a27223 Third Party Advisory