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)

Published · last modified .

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (46.5th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 47th percentile — 46.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2022-0876: held from 0.006 to 0.006.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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.