CVE-2022-2516

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 Medium 5.4

Description

The Visual Composer Website Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the post/page 'Title' value in versions up to, and including, 45.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with access to the visual composer editor to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2022-2516

Assigner
security@wordfence.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2022-09-06T18:15:14

Last Modified Date
2022-09-13T13:29:59

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-79	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:visualcomposer:visual_composer_website_builder::::::wordpress::*	1	OR		45.0

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
LOW

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5.4

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.3

Impact Score
2.7

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2516
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2778808%40visualcomposer&new=2778808%40visualcomposer&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2516
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2516

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-09-06 19:00:13				Added to TrackCVE