vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: wp-downgrade: CVE-2022-1001: 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 22, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The WP Downgrade WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 only perform client side validation of its "WordPress Target Version" settings, but does not sanitise and escape it server side, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Solution

wp-downgrade-plugin-cve-2022-1001
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