CVE-2022-2170
The Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (UET) WordPress plugin before 1.0.4 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (UET) WordPress plugin before 1.0.4 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed. Due to the nature of this plugin, well crafted XSS can also leak into the frontpage.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.36% probability · 70th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- microsoft/microsoft advertising universal event tracking
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6eaef938-ce98-4d57-8a1d-fa9d1ae3d6edExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6eaef938-ce98-4d57-8a1d-fa9d1ae3d6edExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.