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WordPress Plugin: post-grid: CVE-2022-0447: 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
Mar 15, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The Post Grid WordPress plugin before 2.1.16 does not sanitise and escape the post_types parameter before outputting it back in the response of the post_grid_update_taxonomies_terms_by_posttypes AJAX action, available to any authenticated users, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Solution

post-grid-plugin-cve-2022-0447
Title
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