What is CVE-2022-4619?

CVE-2022-4619 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Codelights-Shortcodes-And-Widgets Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-12-20.

How severe is CVE-2022-4619?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-4619 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Codelights-Shortcodes-And-Widgets Project

CVE-2022-4619

The Sidebar Widgets by CodeLights plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘Extra CSS class’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (42.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

security@wordfence.com
security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-4619?: CVE-2022-4619 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Codelights-Shortcodes-And-Widgets Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-12-20.
How severe is CVE-2022-4619?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-4619 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.