# CVE-2022-2278: Featured Image from URL < 4.0.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Admin users can inject malicious scripts via plugin settings in multisite environments, potentially compromising other users.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Aug 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3rw5-p5r3-p5vw

## What is CVE-2022-2278?

CVE-2022-2278 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Featured Image from URL (FIFU), published on 1 Aug 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Featured Image from URL (FIFU) WordPress plugin before 4.0.1 does not validate, sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2278?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Fifu Featured Image From Url.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-2278?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2278 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-2278 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2278 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

- [CVE-2024-1496](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1496/): Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 4.6.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via fifu_input_url (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2023-6561](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6561/): Cross-site scripting in Featured Image from URL (FIFU) (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2022-2241](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2241/): Featured Image from URL < 4.0.0 - Arbitrary Settings Update to Stored XSS via CSRF (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-2278 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-2278 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Featured Image from URL (FIFU), published on 1 Aug 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2278 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Featured Image from URL (FIFU). 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-2022-2278/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2278/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2278
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2278
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2278

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2278/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.