Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2022-47421

CVE-2022-47421:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in Repute InfoSystems ARMember WordPress plugin, affecting both free and premium versions. The vulnerability (CVE-2022-47421) affects ARMember free versions up to 4.0.4 and ARMember Premium versions up to 5.8. The issue was initially reported on December 18, 2022, and was publicly disclosed by Patchstack on June 27, 2023 (Patchstack Free, Patchstack Premium).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium) according to NVD, and 5.9 (Medium) according to Patchstack. The vulnerability requires high privileges (administrator access) and user interaction to be exploited (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website which will be executed when guests visit the site. The attack requires administrator privileges to exploit (Patchstack Free).

Mitigation and workarounds

For the free version of ARMember, users should update to version 4.0.5 or later to remove the vulnerability. For the premium version, no official fix was available at the time of disclosure (Patchstack Free).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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