CVE-2022-4790 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP Google My Business Auto Publish WordPress plugin before 3.4 does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.

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
Auto Publish For Google My Business Project	Auto Publish For Google My Business

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c01f9d36-955d-432c-8a09-ea9ee750f1a1

History

Wed, 02 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: 2023-01-23T14:31:50.455Z

Updated: 2025-04-02T14:48:25.219Z

Reserved: 2022-12-28T10:10:53.714Z

Link: CVE-2022-4790

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:40.412Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-23T15:15:18.057

Modified: 2025-04-02T15:15:50.750

Link: CVE-2022-4790

Redhat

No data.

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