vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: open-external-links-in-a-new-window: CVE-2022-1582: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 9, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The External Links in New Window / New Tab WordPress plugin before 1.43 does not properly escape URLs it concatenates to onclick event handlers, which makes Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks possible.

Solution

open-external-links-in-a-new-window-plugin-cve-2022-1582
Title
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