CVE-2022-0446 (GCVE-0-2022-0446)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-22 14:57 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:25
VLAI
Title
Simple Banner < 2.12.0 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
Summary
The Simple Banner WordPress plugin before 2.12.0 does not properly sanitize its "Simple Banner Text" Settings allowing 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 Simple Banner Affected: 2.12.0 , < 2.12.0 (custom)
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Credits
Rohan Chaudhari
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