SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-1756

Although this uses addslashes, and most modern browsers automatically URLEncode requests, this is still vulnerable to Reflected XSS in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 9 or below.

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.94%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.94%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 7.4.5 does not sanitize and escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] before echoing it back in admin pages. Although this uses addslashes, and most modern browsers automatically URLEncode requests, this is still vulnerable to Reflected XSS in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 9 or below.

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.94% probability · 79th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
thenewsletterplugin/newsletter
Source
contact@wpscan.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.