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CVE-2022-2186: Simple Post Notes < 1.7.6 - 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 Simple Post Notes WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 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

• BracketSpace Simple Post Notes: before 1.7.6 — fixed in 1.7.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: BracketSpace Simple Post Notes 1.7.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b766103a-7f91-4d91-9f9c-bff4bfd53f57
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b766103a-7f91-4d91-9f9c-bff4bfd53f57

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