Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-0663

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 20 June 2022

Published
20 June 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0028 51.9th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-0663 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Printfriendly Print\, Pdf\, Email By Printfriendly. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 48.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 does not sanitise and escape the Custom Button Text settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is…

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disallowed

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

printfriendly
print\, pdf\, email by printfriendly
≤ 5.2.3

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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