What is CVE-2022-4749?

CVE-2022-4749 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Infornweb Posts List Designer, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-01-30.

How severe is CVE-2022-4749?

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

Is CVE-2022-4749 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Infornweb Posts List Designer

CVE-2022-4749

The Posts List Designer by Category WordPress plugin before 3.2 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (38.2th 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

Infornweb Posts_list_designer
Unknown Posts List Designer By Category — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-4749?: CVE-2022-4749 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Infornweb Posts List Designer, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2023-01-30.
How severe is CVE-2022-4749?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-4749 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.