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CVE-2022-0210: Random Banner <= 4.1.4 Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Random Banner WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping via the category parameter found in the ~/include/models/model.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 4.1.4. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.

Affected products

• Random Banner: through 4.1.4

References

• https://github.com/BigTiger2020/2022/blob/main/Random%20Banner%20Xss.md
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/random-banner/tags/4.1.4/include/models/model.php#L132
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-0210
• https://github.com/BigTiger2020/2022/blob/main/Random%20Banner%20Xss.md
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/random-banner/tags/4.1.4/include/models/model.php#L132
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-0210

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