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CVE-2022-3462

MEDIUM 4.8 CVSS 3.1
Published
November 7, 2022
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
Weakness
CWE-79
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Highlight Focus — From 1.1 (including) to 1.1 (including)
  • highlight_focus_project highlight_focus — Version 1.1

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b583de48-1332-4984-8c0c-a7ed4a2397cd Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record