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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: adrotate: CVE-2022-0662: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 11, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

Description

The AdRotate WordPress plugin before 5.8.23 does not sanitise and escape Advert Names which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Solution

adrotate-plugin-cve-2022-0662
Title
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