CVE-2022-1093 (GCVE-0-2022-1093)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-23 07:15 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:55
VLAI
Title
WP Meta SEO < 4.4.7 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via breadcrumbs
Summary
The WP Meta SEO WordPress plugin before 4.4.7 does not sanitise or escape the breadcrumb separator before outputting it to the page, allowing a high privilege user such as an administrator to inject arbitrary javascript into the page even when unfiltered html 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 WP Meta SEO Affected: 4.4.7 , < 4.4.7 (custom)
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Credits
Victor Pasman
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