Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
CVE-2022-3462

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Highlight Focus
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 November 2022

What is CVE-2022-3462?

The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected Version(s)

Highlight Focus 1.1

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b583de48-1332-4984-8c0c-...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Mariam Tariq
.