CVE-2022-1628

Summary

The Simple SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to attribute-based stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including 1.7.91, due to insufficient sanitization or escaping on the SEO social and standard title parameters. This can be exploited by authenticated users with Contributor and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into posts/pages that execute whenever an administrator access the page.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-79: CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2754807%40cds-simple-seo&new=2754807%40cds-simple-seo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1628

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2754807%40cds-simple-seo&new=2754807%40cds-simple-seo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1628

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