XSS in Kylephillips Nested Pages

CVE-2022-1990

The Nested Pages WordPress plugin before 3.1.21 does not escape and sanitize the some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the 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: 0.007 (49.9th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 50th percentile — 49.9% 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-2022-1990: held from 0.007 to 0.007.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-1990?
CVE-2022-1990 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kylephillips Nested Pages, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-06-27.
How severe is CVE-2022-1990?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-1990 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.