CVE-2022-4142 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WordPress Filter Gallery Plugin WordPress plugin before 0.1.6 does not properly escape the filters passed in the ufg_gallery_filters ajax action before outputting them on the page, allowing a high privileged user such as an administrator to inject HTML or javascript to the plugin settings page, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disabled.

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
Wordpress Filter Gallery Project	Wordpress Filter Gallery

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8c2adadd-0684-49a8-9185-0c7d9581aef1

History

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +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: 2023-01-02T21:49:17.868Z

Updated: 2025-04-10T19:01:26.610Z

Reserved: 2022-11-25T14:24:20.783Z

Link: CVE-2022-4142

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.543Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-02T22:15:16.360

Modified: 2025-04-10T19:15:51.237

Link: CVE-2022-4142

Redhat

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