CVE-2022-3462

Summary

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)

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
UnknownHighlight Focus1.1 <= 1.1affected

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References