CVE-2022-4010 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Image Hover Effects WordPress plugin before 5.5 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
Webdevocean	Image Hover Effects

Configuration 1 [-]

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No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bed8c81c-04c7-412d-9563-ce4eb64b7754

History

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +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: 2022-12-12T17:54:50.528Z

Updated: 2025-04-22T17:52:23.221Z

Reserved: 2022-11-16T03:54:23.108Z

Link: CVE-2022-4010

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.128Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-12T18:15:13.097

Modified: 2025-04-22T18:15:57.803

Link: CVE-2022-4010

Redhat

No data.

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