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CVE-2022-3462: Highlight Focus <= 1.1 - 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: 2022-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 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

• Highlight Focus: 1.1

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b583de48-1332-4984-8c0c-a7ed4a2397cd
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b583de48-1332-4984-8c0c-a7ed4a2397cd

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