What is CVE-2022-0876?

CVE-2022-0876 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpdevart Social Comments, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-04-25.

How severe is CVE-2022-0876?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-0876 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Wpdevart Social Comments

CVE-2022-0876

The Social comments by WpDevArt WordPress plugin before 2.5.0 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (44.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Wpdevart Social_comments
Unknown Social Comments By Wpdevart — versions 2.5.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-0876?: CVE-2022-0876 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpdevart Social Comments, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-04-25.
How severe is CVE-2022-0876?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-0876 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.