Vulnerability Report

CVE-2022-1756

Title: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in Newsletter

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2022-1756.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jun 13, 2022

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.79%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2022-1756: The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 7.4.5 does not sanitize and escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] before echoing it back in admin pages. Although this uses addslashes, and most modern browsers automatically URLEncode requests, this is still vulnerable to Reflected XSS in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 9 or below.

Impacted Vendors

knusperleicht 1

tribulant 1

thenewsletterplugin 1

Reference Links

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6ad407fe-db2b-41fb-834b-dd8c4f62b072 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6ad407fe-db2b-41fb-834b-dd8c4f62b072

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2022-1756 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 13, 2022 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.