CVE-2022-4226 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Simple Basic Contact Form WordPress plugin before 20221201 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
Wpkube	Simple Basic Contact Form

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpkube:simple_basic_contact_form:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c5ca22e0-b7a5-468d-8366-1855ff33851b

History

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +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: 2022-12-26T12:28:12.904Z

Updated: 2025-04-14T14:06:11.104Z

Reserved: 2022-11-30T07:20:34.604Z

Link: CVE-2022-4226

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:49.844Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-26T13:15:13.717

Modified: 2025-04-14T14:15:22.790

Link: CVE-2022-4226

Redhat

No data.

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