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CVE-2022-0737 (GCVE-0-2022-0737)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-18 17:10 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:40
VLAI
Title
Text Hover < 4.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Text Hover WordPress plugin before 4.2 does not sanitize and escape the text to hover, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Text Hover Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2 (custom)
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Credits
Rohan Chaudhari
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