PT-2023-15147 · WordPress · Genesis Columns Advanced

Lana Codes · Published 2023-01-23 · Updated 2023-01-31 · CVE-2022-4706

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 Genesis Columns Advanced WordPress plugin versions prior to 2.0.4

Description The issue allows users with a role as low as a 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 Genesis Columns Advanced WordPress plugin versions prior to 2.0.4, update to version 2.0.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4706

Affected Products

Genesis Columns Advanced

References · 3

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/30882a45-ca03-4ff1-a36d-758d9b9b641c · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4706 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4706 · Security Note