Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-2658

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 16 January 2023

Published
16 January 2023
Modified
04 April 2025
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 0.0021 43.1th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-2658 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Wpspellcheck Wpspellcheck. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.1th 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

Vulnerability details

The WP Spell Check WordPress plugin before 9.13 does not escape ignored words, 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)

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

wpspellcheck
wpspellcheck
≤ 9.13

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References