CVE-2022-2716 (GCVE-0-2022-2716)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-06 17:19
Modified
2025-02-13 20:45
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The Beaver Builder – WordPress Page Builder for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Text Editor' block in versions up to, and including, 2.5.5.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with access to the Beaver Builder editor to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2716Third Party Advisory
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/change-logs/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2716Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/change-logs/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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