CVE-2022-0840 (GCVE-0-2022-0840)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-11 14:40 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:40
VLAI
Title
Easy Social Icons < 3.2.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting in add icon
Summary
The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.2.1 does not properly escape the image_file field when adding a new social icon, allowing high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript 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 Easy Social Icons Affected: 3.2.1 , < 3.2.1 (custom)
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Credits
qerogram
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