CVE-2022-2516

Published: Sep 6, 2022

Modified: Feb 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.4

MEDIUM

Description

The Visual Composer Website Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the post/page 'Title' value in versions up to, and including, 45.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with access to the visual composer editor to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vendor	Product	Versions
visualcomposer	Visual Composer Website Builder, Landing Page Builder, Custom Theme Builder, Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Pages	affected `45.0 - <= 45.0`

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

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2778808%40visualcomposer&new=2778808%40visualcomposer&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

x_refsource_MISC

https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2516

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CVE-2022-2516

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References