FKIE_CVE-2022-4973

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-16 07:15 - Updated: 2024-10-30 15:58
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
WordPress Core, in versions up to 6.0.2, is vulnerable to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting that can be exploited by users with access to the WordPress post and page editor, typically consisting of Authors, Contributors, and Editors making it possible to inject arbitrary web scripts into posts and pages that execute if the the_meta(); function is called on that page.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/53961Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://wordpress.org/news/2022/08/wordpress-6-0-2-security-and-maintenance-release/Release Notes
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/08/wordpress-core-6-0-2-security-maintenance-release-what-you-need-to-know/Third Party Advisory
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5582e89-83e6-4898-b9fe-09eddeb5f7ae?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wordpress wordpress *
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