Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4226

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 26 December 2022

Published
26 December 2022
Modified
14 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 0.0042 62.1th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-4226 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Wpkube Simple Basic Contact Form. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 37.9% 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 Simple Basic Contact Form WordPress plugin before 20221201 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…

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(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

wpkube
simple basic contact form
≤ 20221201

Mitigating Controls

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

References