What is CVE-2023-4022?

CVE-2023-4022 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wow-Company Herd Effects, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2023-09-11.

How severe is CVE-2023-4022?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-4022 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in Wow-Company Herd Effects

CVE-2023-4022

The Herd Effects WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 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 2023-09-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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: 0.005 (38.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 38.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Wow-Company Herd Effects
Herd Effects — versions 0

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/c4ac0b19-58b1-4620-b3b7-fbe6dd6c8dd5 (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-4022?: CVE-2023-4022 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wow-Company Herd Effects, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2023-09-11.
How severe is CVE-2023-4022?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-4022 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.