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CVE-2022-2937: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2022-2937 is a security vulnerability affecting the Image Hover Effects Ultimate WordPress plugin versions up to 9.7.3. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher Zhouyuan Yang and was assigned a CVSS score of 6.4 (Medium), indicating a moderate severity level (Wordfence Advisories).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been classified with a CVSS vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating that it is network exploitable, requires low attack complexity, requires low privileges, needs no user interaction, has changed scope, and can impact both confidentiality and integrity with low severity (Wordfence Intel).

Impact

The vulnerability allows for authenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, potentially compromising the security of the affected WordPress installations (Wordfence Intel).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires authentication and can be exploited by attackers with low-level privileges in the WordPress system (Wordfence Advisories).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update the Image Hover Effects Ultimate plugin to a version newer than 9.7.3 to mitigate this vulnerability (Wordfence Intel).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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