CVE-2022-3462CWE-79

Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting

Medium · published November 7, 2022

CVSS v3.1
4.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 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)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00596 · 47.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2022-11-07T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 NOV 00:00Z
    Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
    cvelistv5