CVE-2022-45836
Published: 18 April 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-45836 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in W3Eden Download Manager. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 7.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability is an unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79) affecting the Download Manager plugin by W3 Eden, Inc. for WordPress, specifically all versions through 3.2.59. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.3 with network attack vector, low complexity, no required privileges, and required user interaction.
An unauthenticated attacker can supply a crafted request that reflects malicious JavaScript back to a victim user; successful exploitation yields limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the context of the targeted user's session.
Advisories published by Patchstack document the issue and link to the affected plugin versions. The EPSS score rose from lower values to a peak of 0.1072 on 2026-02-13 before receding to the current 0.0792, indicating a modest post-disclosure increase in observed exploitation interest.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-48690
Vulnerability details
Unauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in W3 Eden, Inc. Download Manager plugin <= 3.2.59 versions.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.