Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4649

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 30 January 2023

Published
30 January 2023
Modified
28 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 0.0020 41.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-4649 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Wp Extended Search Project Wp Extended Search. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.8th 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 WP Extended Search WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

wp extended search project
wp extended search
≤ 2.1.2

Mitigating Controls

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

References