CVE-2022-0376: User Meta < 2.4.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-05-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The User Meta WordPress plugin before 2.4.3 does not sanitise and escape the Form Name, as well as Shared Field Labels before outputting them in the admin dashboard when editing a form, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected products

User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin: before 2.4.3 — fixed in 2.4.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin 2.4.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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