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CVE-2022-1628

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CVE-2022-1628

Published: Sep 6, 2022

Modified: Jan 31, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.4

MEDIUM

Description

The Simple SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to attribute-based stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including 1.7.91, due to insufficient sanitization or escaping on the SEO social and standard title parameters. This can be exploited by authenticated users with Contributor and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into posts/pages that execute whenever an administrator access the page.

VendorProductVersions

coleds

Simple SEO

affected
1.7.91 - <= 1.7.91

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

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