CVE-2022-3462
Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.8 Medium
- Published
- Nov 7, 2022
- Updated
- May 1, 2025
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2022
Description
The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.8 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Highlight FocusUnknown |
|
References
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