# CVE-2022-0450: Menu Image, Icons made easy < 3.0.8 - Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Authenticated subscribers can inject malicious scripts into menu settings due to missing authorization and sanitization, leading to stored XSS on the frontend.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Mar 2022
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rwc4-w23c-gc77

## What is CVE-2022-0450?

CVE-2022-0450 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Menu Image, Icons made easy, published on 28 Mar 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Menu Image, Icons made easy WordPress plugin before 3.0.6 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when saving menu settings, and does not validate, sanitise and escape them. As a result, any authenticate users, such as subscriber can update the settings or arbitrary menu and put Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them which will be triggered in the related menu in the frontend

Weakness: CWE-116 (Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0450?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Freshlightlab Menu Image\, Icons Made Easy.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-0450?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0450 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-0450 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Menu Image, Icons made easy

- [CVE-2023-50826](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-50826/): WordPress Menu Image, Icons made easy Plugin <= 3.10 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 5.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0450 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-0450 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Menu Image, Icons made easy, published on 28 Mar 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Menu Image, Icons made easy. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0450/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0450/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0450
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0450
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0450

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0450/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.