CVE-2022-4474 Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box < 6.4.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Contributors can inject malicious scripts via shortcode attributes, potentially compromising admin accounts in Easy Social Feed.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-4474?
CVE-2022-4474 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Easy Social Feed, published on 23 Jan 2023. 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 Easy Social Feed WordPress plugin before 6.4.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4474?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Easysocialfeed Easy Social Feed.
How do I fix CVE-2022-4474?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-4474 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-2022-4474 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-4474 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Easy Social Feed
- CVE-2024-30180 WordPress Easy Social Feed plugin <= 6.5.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
- CVE-2024-1278 Cross-site scripting in Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress
- CVE-2021-25120 Easy Social Feed < 6.2.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2024-1213 Easy Social Feed <= 6.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
- CVE-2024-1219 Easy Social Feed < 6.5.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h6r5-hjf4-84m4.