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WordPress Plugin: wp-home-page-menu: CVE-2022-0684: 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 30, 2026

Description

The WP Home Page Menu WordPress plugin before 3.1 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

wp-home-page-menu-plugin-cve-2022-0684

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0684
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b9394801-4a74-4327-9afd-35f4166c2abb?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-15769
CVE-2022-0684
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-0684
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2022-15769

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