Vulnerability Details : 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.
Published 2022-06-13 13:15:12
Updated 2022-06-22 19:44:11
Source WPScan
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Cross site scripting (XSS)

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-1756

EPSS FAQ
0.09%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 37 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2022-1756

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
4.3
 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
8.6
2.9
 NIST
6.1
 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
2.8
2.7
 NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2022-1756

References for CVE-2022-1756

Products affected by CVE-2022-1756

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