CVE-2022-4480 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Click to Chat WordPress plugin before 3.18.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Holithemes	Click To Chat

Configuration 1 [-]

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No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1666f91d-3aa2-487d-a31b-44d051ab0124

History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-01-16T15:37:48.826Z

Updated: 2025-04-04T18:26:18.544Z

Reserved: 2022-12-14T07:47:10.746Z

Link: CVE-2022-4480

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:45.004Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-16T16:15:12.577

Modified: 2025-04-04T19:15:43.277

Link: CVE-2022-4480

Redhat

No data.

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