CVE-2022-4551 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Rich Table of Contents WordPress plugin before 1.3.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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
Croover	Rich Table Of Contents

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:croover:rich_table_of_contents:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/91c00b17-00ba-4c3f-8587-d54449a02659

History

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:15:00 +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: 2023-02-13T14:32:08.804Z

Updated: 2025-03-21T16:20:10.812Z

Reserved: 2022-12-16T09:32:36.125Z

Link: CVE-2022-4551

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:45.582Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:17.477

Modified: 2025-03-21T17:15:36.837

Link: CVE-2022-4551

Redhat

No data.

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