WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2022-4668 Modified

Easy Appointments: Cross-site scripting

Easy Appointments is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.

CVE / CNA score 5.4 CVSS 3.1 · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
NVD score 5.4 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Easy Appointments
Plugin slug
easy-appointments
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Jan 23, 2023
Weakness
Not assigned

This CVE was published Jan 23, 2023 and is one of 13 known issues for this plugin.

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update Easy Appointments to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

Technical description

The Easy Appointments WordPress plugin before 3.11.2 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Primary and upstream sources