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CVE-2022-2148: LinkedIn Company Updates <= 1.5.3 - 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: 2022-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The LinkedIn Company Updates WordPress plugin through 1.5.3 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

• LinkedIn Company Updates: through 1.5.3

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/92214311-da6d-49a8-95c9-86f47635264f
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/92214311-da6d-49a8-95c9-86f47635264f

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