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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)
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Highlight Focus Affected: 1.1 , ≤ 1.1 (custom)
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Credits
Mariam Tariq
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