CVE-2022-0901 Ad Inserter < 2.7.12 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2022-0901?

CVE-2022-0901 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Ad Inserter Pro, published on 4 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Ad Inserter Free and Pro WordPress plugins before 2.7.12 do not sanitise and escape the REQUEST_URI before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0901?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ad Inserter Project Ad Inserter.

How do I fix CVE-2022-0901?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0901 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2022-0901 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0901 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Ad Inserter Pro

• CVE-2015-9497 Cross-site request forgery in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2019-15324 Code injection in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2019-15323 Path traversal in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2023-1549 Ad Inserter < 2.7.27 - Admin+ PHP Object Injection High 7.2
• CVE-2023-4668 Ad Inserter <= 2.7.30 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via ai-debug-processing-fe Medium 5.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-hj7f-7vcm-jv3j.