Name: CVE-2022-1756: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2022-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2022-1756, CWE-79, CVSS 6.1, EPSS 0.01941

The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 7.4.5 does not sanitize and escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] before echoing it back in admin pages. Although this uses addslashes, and most modern browsers automatically URLEncode requests, this is still vulnerable to Reflected XSS in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 9 or below.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.1
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Newsletter Plugin	—	Update newsletter plugin to version 7.4.5, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	May 23, 2022

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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