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3 vulnerabilities found for highlight_focus by highlight_focus_project
FKIE_CVE-2022-3462
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-11-07 10:15 - Updated: 2025-05-01 21:15
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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)
References
| URL | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| contact@wpscan.com | https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b583de48-1332-4984-8c0c-a7ed4a2397cd | Exploit, Third Party Advisory | |
| af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b583de48-1332-4984-8c0c-a7ed4a2397cd | Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| highlight_focus_project | highlight_focus | 1.1 |
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CVE-2022-3462 (GCVE-0-2022-3462)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-01 20:42
VLAI?
Title
Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
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)
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Highlight Focus |
Affected:
1.1 , ≤ 1.1
(custom)
|
Credits
Mariam Tariq
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CVE-2022-3462 (GCVE-0-2022-3462)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2022-11-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-01 20:42
VLAI?
Title
Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
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)
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Highlight Focus |
Affected:
1.1 , ≤ 1.1
(custom)
|
Credits
Mariam Tariq
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