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WordPress Plugin: simple-theme-options: CVE-2022-0700: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Feb 21, 2022

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 29, 2026

Description

The Simple Tracking WordPress plugin before 1.7 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Solution

simple-theme-options-plugin-cve-2022-0700

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0700
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50b0eb50-fe25-487f-b5bc-13659be58ae4?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-15777
CVE-2022-0700
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-0700
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2022-15777

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