CVE-2022-3833 (GCVE-0-2022-3833)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-28 13:47 – Updated: 2025-04-25 17:23
VLAI
Title
Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup <= 1.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup WordPress plugin through 1.4 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).
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/41096d40-83d4-40… exploittechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.4 (custom)
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Credits
zhangyunpei
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