Vulnerability · Published Nov 14, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2022-3578ProfileGrid < 5.1.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 64% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 35.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Nuclei

Official description

The ProfileGrid WordPress plugin before 5.1.1 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Affected products (as reported)

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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