PT-2023-15635 · WordPress · Wp Blog/Widgets

Lana Codes · Published 2023-02-06 · Updated 2025-03-26 · CVE-2022-4824

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 WP Blog and Widgets WordPress plugin versions prior to 2.3.1

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. This is due to the plugin not validating and escaping some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.3.1, update to version 2.3.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of shortcodes to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4824

Affected Products

Wp Blog/Widgets

References · 5

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9af8e425-c477-4e2b-9445-70ffb769f3f0 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4824 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4824 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/116319 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/43704 · Telegram Post