CVE-2022-3237 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The WP Contact Slider WordPress plugin before 2.4.8 does not sanitize and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Published: 2022-10-31

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

WP Contact Slider

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`2.4.8`	affected	< 2.4.8

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpexperts:wp_contact_slider:*:*:*:*:*: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-2022-42645	The WP Contact Slider WordPress plugin before 2.4.8 does not sanitize and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability 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

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00304.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cd2fd6cd-a839-4de8-af28-b5134873c40e

History

Tue, 06 May 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Wpexperts Wp Contact Slider

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

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

Updated: 2025-05-06T15:44:34.153Z

Reserved: 2022-09-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3237

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:00:10.771Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-31T16:15:10.987

Modified: 2025-05-06T16:15:24.107

Link: CVE-2022-3237

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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