CVE-2022-4761 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Post Views Count WordPress plugin through 3.0.2 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Post Views Count Project	Post Views Count

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:post_views_count_project:post_views_count:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ad163020-8b9c-42cb-a55f-b137b224bafb

History

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-21T08:50:44.527Z

Updated: 2025-03-12T20:28:43.654Z

Reserved: 2022-12-27T09:52:39.933Z

Link: CVE-2022-4761

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:40.403Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-21T09:15:11.323

Modified: 2025-03-12T21:15:39.547

Link: CVE-2022-4761

Redhat

No data.

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