What is CVE-2022-2186?

CVE-2022-2186 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bracketspace Simple Post Notes, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2022-2186?

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

Is CVE-2022-2186 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Bracketspace Simple Post Notes

CVE-2022-2186

The Simple Post Notes WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (42.9th 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

Bracketspace Simple_post_notes
Unknown Simple Post Notes — versions 1.7.6

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-2022-2186?: CVE-2022-2186 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bracketspace Simple Post Notes, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2022-2186?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-2186 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.