Vulnerabilites related to Unknown - WP Word Count
CVE-2022-3408 (GCVE-0-2022-3408)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-31 00:00
Modified
2025-05-06 20:15
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The WP Word Count WordPress plugin through 3.2.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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