Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4545

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 23 January 2023

Published
23 January 2023
Modified
03 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
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 0.0018 39.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-4545 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Sitemap Project Sitemap. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 39.6th 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 Sitemap WordPress plugin before 4.4 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 Scripting attacks…

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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

sitemap project
sitemap
≤ 4.4

Mitigating Controls

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

References