CVE-2022-4471 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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The YARPP WordPress plugin before 5.30.3 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Yarpp	Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:yarpp:yet_another_related_posts_plugin:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c6cf792b-054c-4d77-bcae-3b700f42130b

History

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-13T14:32:30.170Z

Updated: 2025-03-21T19:47:47.404Z

Reserved: 2022-12-14T04:19:25.441Z

Link: CVE-2022-4471

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:44.920Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:16.997

Modified: 2025-03-21T20:15:13.790

Link: CVE-2022-4471

Redhat

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