Description
The Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup WordPress plugin through 1.4 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: 2022-11-28
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-2022-43173 The Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup WordPress plugin through 1.4 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

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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

Subscriptions

Thematosoup Fancier Author Box
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-25T17:23:54.684Z

Reserved: 2022-11-02T12:38:57.858Z

Link: CVE-2022-3833

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:20:58.600Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-28T14:15:15.880

Modified: 2025-04-25T18:15:24.417

Link: CVE-2022-3833

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.