CVE-2022-3539 (GCVE-0-2022-3539)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-30 15:31
VLAI
Title
Testimonials (Free < 2.7, Pro < 1.0.8) - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Testimonials WordPress plugin before 2.7, super-testimonial-pro WordPress plugin before 1.0.8 do not sanitize and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin 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
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-30 15:30 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Testimonials Affected: 2.7 , < 2.7 (custom)
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Unknown Testimonial Pro Affected: 1.0.8 , < 1.0.8 (custom)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Asif Nawaz Minhas
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