PT-2023-14555 · WordPress · Click To Chat Wordpress Plugin

Lana Codes · CVE-2022-4480 · Published 2023-01-16 · Updated 2025-04-04

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Click to Chat WordPress plugin versions prior to 3.18.1

Description The issue allows 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, due to the plugin's failure to validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.18.1, update to version 3.18.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4480

Affected Products

Click To Chat Wordpress Plugin

References · 4

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1666f91d-3aa2-487d-a31b-44d051ab0124 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4480 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4480 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/117868 · Telegram Post