CVE-2023-4022 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Herd Effects WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 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
Wow-company	Herd Effects

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wow-company:herd_effects:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c4ac0b19-58b1-4620-b3b7-fbe6dd6c8dd5

History

Wed, 23 Apr 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: 2023-09-11T19:46:06.069Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:16:56.932Z

Reserved: 2023-07-31T15:18:03.333Z

Link: CVE-2023-4022

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:17:11.833Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-11T20:15:11.240

Modified: 2025-04-23T17:16:40.940

Link: CVE-2023-4022

Redhat

No data.

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