Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4459

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 06 February 2023

Published
06 February 2023
Modified
26 March 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0036 58.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-4459 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Wp Show Posts Project Wp Show Posts. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 41.2% 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 WP Show Posts WordPress plugin before 1.1.4 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site…

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Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

wp show posts project
wp show posts
≤ 1.1.4

Mitigating Controls

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

References