CVE-2022-3836: Seed Social < 2.0.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Seed Social WordPress plugin before 2.0.4 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

Seed Social: before 2.0.4 — fixed in 2.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Seed Social 2.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/64e144fb-aa9f-4cfe-9c44-a4e1fa2e8dd5/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/64e144fb-aa9f-4cfe-9c44-a4e1fa2e8dd5/

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