CVE-2022-2340 (GCVE-0-2022-2340)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-25 12:48 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:32
VLAI
Title
W-DALIL <= 2.0 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The W-DALIL WordPress plugin through 2.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its fields, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
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 W-DALIL Affected: 2.0 , ≤ 2.0 (custom)
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Credits
Mariam Tariq
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