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CVE-2022-4299: Metricool < 1.18 - 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: 2023-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Metricool WordPress plugin before 1.18 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

• Metricool: before 1.18 — fixed in 1.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Metricool 1.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/169c5611-ed10-4cc3-bd07-09b365adf303
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/169c5611-ed10-4cc3-bd07-09b365adf303

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