Vulnerability in Wp Social Sharing Project
CVE-2022-4198
The WP Social Sharing WordPress plugin through 2.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
EPSS: 0.006 (45.9th 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
- Wp_social_sharing_project Wp_social_sharing
- Unknown Wp Social Sharing — versions 0
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)
- contact@wpscan.com
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-4198?
- CVE-2022-4198 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp Social Sharing Project, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2023-01-02.
- How severe is CVE-2022-4198?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2022-4198 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.