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CVE-2022-2799: Affiliates Manager < 2.9.14 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% 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 Affiliates Manager WordPress plugin before 2.9.14 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Affected products

• Affiliates Manager: before 2.9.14 — fixed in 2.9.14

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Affiliates Manager 2.9.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4385370e-cf99-4249-b2c1-90cbfa8378a4
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4385370e-cf99-4249-b2c1-90cbfa8378a4

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