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CVE-2022-1542: HPB Dashboard <= 1.3.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% 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 HPB Dashboard WordPress plugin through 1.3.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed.

Affected products

• hpb Dashboard: through 1.3.1

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/40916242-df03-49a1-9a6a-9af33907e359
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/40916242-df03-49a1-9a6a-9af33907e359

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