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).
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 (46.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 47th percentile — 46.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Wp Social Sharing Project
- Wp Social Sharing — versions 0
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba372400-96f7-45a9-9e89-5984ecc4d1e2 (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-33
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.