FKIE_CVE-2022-0780

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-04-18 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:21
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The SearchIQ WordPress plugin before 3.9 contains a flag to disable the verification of CSRF nonces, granting unauthenticated attackers access to the siq_ajax AJAX action and allowing them to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping in the customCss parameter
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0ee7d1a8-9782-4db5-b055-e732f2763825Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0ee7d1a8-9782-4db5-b055-e732f2763825Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
searchiq searchiq *
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        {
          "product": "SearchIQ \u2013 The Search Solution",
          "vendor": "Unknown",
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              "status": "affected",
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            }
          ]
        }
      ],
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    }
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    },
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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2022-0780",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T04:21:14.983",
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  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
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}



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