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CVE-2022-0381: Embed Swagger <= 1.0.0 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Embed Swagger WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping/sanitization and validation via the url parameter found in the ~/swagger-iframe.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto the page, in versions up to and including 1.0.0.

Affected products

• Embed Swagger: through 1.0.0

References

• https://gist.github.com/Xib3rR4dAr/4b3ea7960914e23c3a875b973a5b37a3
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-swagger/trunk/swagger-iframe.php#L59
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-0381
• https://gist.github.com/Xib3rR4dAr/4b3ea7960914e23c3a875b973a5b37a3
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embed-swagger/trunk/swagger-iframe.php#L59
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-0381

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