CVE-2022-2575: WBW Currency Switcher for WooCommerce < 1.6.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

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: 2022-09-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WBW Currency Switcher for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 1.6.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

WBW Currency Switcher for WooCommerce: before 1.6.6 — fixed in 1.6.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: WBW Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e934af78-9dfd-4e14-853d-dc453de6e365
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e934af78-9dfd-4e14-853d-dc453de6e365

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