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CVE-2022-4675: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Mongoose Page Plugin WordPress plugin (also known as facebook-page-feed-graph-api) before version 1.9.0 contains a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on December 27, 2022, and affects users with contributor-level permissions or higher (WPScan Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper validation and escaping of shortcode attributes in the plugin. The issue has been assigned CVE-2022-4675 and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79: Cross-Site Scripting (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability allows authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. When successfully exploited, it could enable attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute in other users' browsers when viewing affected pages (WPScan Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.9.0 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan Advisory).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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