CVE-2022-3832 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The External Media WordPress plugin before 1.0.36 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).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
External Media Project	External Media

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:external_media_project:external_media:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/458ec2fd-4175-4cb4-b334-b63f6e643b92

History

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-12-19T13:41:39.280Z

Updated: 2025-04-17T14:18:54.903Z

Reserved: 2022-11-02T12:19:52.567Z

Link: CVE-2022-3832

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:20:58.300Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-19T14:15:10.923

Modified: 2025-04-17T15:15:46.503

Link: CVE-2022-3832

Redhat

No data.

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