CVE-2022-3220 (GCVE-0-2022-3220)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-10 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 01:00
VLAI
Title
Advanced Comment Form < 1.2.1 - Admin+ Authenticated Stored XSS
Summary
The Advanced Comment Form WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 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 Advanced Comment Form Affected: 1.2.1 , < 1.2.1 (custom)
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Credits
Asif Nawaz Minhas
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