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CVE-2022-1643: Birthdays Widget <= 1.7.18 - 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 Birthdays Widget WordPress plugin through 1.7.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its fields, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

• Birthdays Widget: through 1.7.18

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/73111c7e-c772-4bed-b282-854c1ae57444
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/73111c7e-c772-4bed-b282-854c1ae57444

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