Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4171

Medium

Published: 13 December 2022

Published
13 December 2022
Modified
08 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0049 65.9th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-4171 is a medium-severity Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input (CWE-1284) vulnerability in Superwhite Demon Image Annotation. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 34.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The demon image annotation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper input validation in versions up to, and including 5.0. This is due to the plugin improperly validating the number of characters supplied during an annotation despite there being a…

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setting to limit the number characters input. This means that unauthenticated attackers can bypass the length restrictions and input more characters than allowed via the settings.

CWE(s)
CWE-1284

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

superwhite
demon image annotation
≤ 5.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References