CVE-2022-4295
Published: 16 January 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-4295 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Appjetty Show All Comments. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 5.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis
The Show All Comments WordPress plugin before version 7.0.1 is affected by a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. The root cause is missing sanitization and escaping of an unspecified parameter that is reflected back into the page output, as described in the CVE record with a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.1.
An unauthenticated attacker can craft a malicious link that, when visited by a logged-in high-privilege user such as an administrator, executes arbitrary script in the victim's browser context. The attack vector is network-reachable with no authentication required from the attacker and results in limited impacts to confidentiality and integrity under the provided CVSS metrics.
The EPSS score for this CVE reached a peak of 0.2027 after disclosure before settling at the current value of 0.1416, indicating a material increase in predicted exploitation interest. Details of the issue are tracked in the WPScan advisory at the referenced URL.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-51651
Vulnerability details
The Show All Comments WordPress plugin before 7.0.1 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against a logged in high privilege users such…
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as admin.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.