CVE-2022-1889 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 7.4.6 does not escape and sanitise the preheader_text setting, which could allow high privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfilteredhtml is disallowed

Published: 2022-06-20

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Newsletter – Send awesome emails from WordPress

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`7.4.6`	affected	< 7.4.6

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:thenewsletterplugin:newsletter:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-25161	The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 7.4.6 does not escape and sanitise the preheader_text setting, which could allow high privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfilteredhtml is disallowed

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00225.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ee3832e2-ce40-4063-a23e-44c7f7f5f46a

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Thenewsletterplugin Newsletter

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-06-20T10:26:13.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:17:00.922Z

Reserved: 2022-05-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-1889

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-06-20T11:15:10.290

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:41:41.267

Link: CVE-2022-1889

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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