CVE-2022-2170 (GCVE-0-2022-2170)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-01 12:49 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:32
VLAI
Title
Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking < 1.0.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (UET) WordPress plugin before 1.0.4 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed. Due to the nature of this plugin, well crafted XSS can also leak into the frontpage.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6eaef938-ce98-4d… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (UET) |
Affected:
1.0.4 , < 1.0.4
(custom)
|
Credits
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Nomenclature
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