CVE-2022-3070 (GCVE-0-2022-3070)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-26 12:35 – Updated: 2025-05-22 14:04
VLAI?
Summary
The Generate PDF WordPress plugin before 3.6 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.
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
Unknown Generate PDF using Contact Form 7 Affected: 3.6 , < 3.6 (custom)
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Credits
Anurag Bhoir
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