CVE-2022-4198

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4198
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-4198.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-4198
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-01-02T21:49:15Z
Modified
2026-10-06T02:27:53Z
Severity
  • 4.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
WP Social Sharing <= 2.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Details

The WP Social Sharing WordPress plugin through 2.2 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).

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "WPScan",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/4xxx/CVE-2022-4198.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "2.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

WordPress:Plugin / wp-social-sharing

Package

Name
wp-social-sharing

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last Affected
2.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-4198.json"