CVE-2022-4626
Published: 06 February 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-4626 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Passwordprotectwp Password Protect Wordpress. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 46.6% 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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-51956
Vulnerability details
The PPWP WordPress plugin before 1.8.6 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)
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.