CVE-2022-43497 (GCVE-0-2022-43497)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-05 00:00
Modified
2025-04-24 14:09
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • Cross-site scripting
Summary
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress versions prior to 6.0.3 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to inject an arbitrary script. The developer also provides new patched releases for all versions since 3.7.
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