CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4619
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-12-20
- 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 Sidebar Widgets by CodeLights plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘Extra CSS class’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.4 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
• codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets project codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets (<= 1.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3feb84c9-fc98-4f59-a124-b6434e5b8a44?source=cve www.wordfence.com
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/codelights-shortcodes-and-widgets/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3feb84c9-fc98-4f59-a124-b6434e5b8a44 Third Party Advisory