Description
The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 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)
Published: 2022-11-07
Score: 4.8 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-42834 The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 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)
History

Thu, 01 May 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Highlight Focus Project Highlight Focus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-01T20:42:59.733Z

Reserved: 2022-10-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3462

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:07:06.715Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-07T10:15:11.780

Modified: 2025-05-01T21:15:51.297

Link: CVE-2022-3462

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses