CVE-2022-2167 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Newspaper WordPress theme before 12 does not sanitise a parameter before outputting it back in an HTML attribute via an AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Published: 2022-10-31

Score: 6.1 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

Newspaper

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`12`	affected	< 12

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:tagdiv:newspaper:*:*:*:*:*: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-2022-34452	The Newspaper WordPress theme before 12 does not sanitise a parameter before outputting it back in an HTML attribute via an AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00496.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ad35fbae-1e90-47a0-b1d2-f8d91a5db90e

History

Wed, 07 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Tagdiv Newspaper

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-10-31T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-07T13:25:48.460Z

Reserved: 2022-06-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-2167

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:32:07.967Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-31T16:15:10.647

Modified: 2025-05-07T14:15:30.277

Link: CVE-2022-2167

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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