CVE-2022-0684: WP Home Page Menu < 3.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Home Page Menu WordPress plugin before 3.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

WP Home Page Menu: before 3.1 — fixed in 3.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: WP Home Page Menu 3.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2681478
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/69b178f3-5951-4879-9bbe-183951d002ec
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2681478
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/69b178f3-5951-4879-9bbe-183951d002ec

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