What is CVE-2022-4470?

CVE-2022-4470 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Trustindex Widgets For Google Reviews, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-01-30.

How severe is CVE-2022-4470?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-4470 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in Trustindex Widgets For Google Reviews

CVE-2022-4470

The Widgets for Google Reviews WordPress plugin before 9.8 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

EPSS: 0.005 (40.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Trustindex Widgets_for_google_reviews
Unknown Widgets For Google Reviews — versions 0

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-4470?: CVE-2022-4470 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Trustindex Widgets For Google Reviews, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-01-30.
How severe is CVE-2022-4470?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-4470 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.