Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4576

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 23 January 2023

Published
23 January 2023
Modified
02 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-2022-4576 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Easy Bootstrap Shortcode Project Easy Bootstrap Shortcode. 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 Easy Bootstrap Shortcode WordPress plugin through 4.5.4 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

easy bootstrap shortcode project
easy bootstrap shortcode
≤ 4.5.4

Mitigating Controls

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

References