What is CVE-2022-2170?

CVE-2022-2170 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-08-01.

How severe is CVE-2022-2170?

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

Is CVE-2022-2170 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking

CVE-2022-2170

The Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (UET) WordPress plugin before 1.0.4 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed. Due to the nature of this plugin, well crafted XSS can also leak into the frontpage.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.011 (61.9th 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

Microsoft Microsoft_advertising_universal_event_tracking
Unknown Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (Uet) — versions 1.0.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-2170?: CVE-2022-2170 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-08-01.
How severe is CVE-2022-2170?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-2170 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.