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CVE-2022-0876: Social comments by WpDevArt < 2.5.0 - 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: 2022-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Social comments by WpDevArt WordPress plugin before 2.5.0 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected products

• Social comments by WpDevArt: before 2.5.0 — fixed in 2.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Social comments by WpDevArt 2.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/73be6e92-ea37-4416-977d-52ee2afa022a
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/73be6e92-ea37-4416-977d-52ee2afa022a

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