CVE-2022-0450
Published: 28 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-0450 is a medium-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Freshlightlab Menu Image\, Icons Made Easy. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 48.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-15589
Vulnerability details
The Menu Image, Icons made easy WordPress plugin before 3.0.6 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when saving menu settings, and does not validate, sanitise and escape them. As a result, any authenticate users, such as subscriber can update…
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the settings or arbitrary menu and put Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them which will be triggered in the related menu in the frontend
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.