CVE-2022-1009

Summary

CVECVE-2022-1009
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-30 09:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-06-08 17:20:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Smush WordPress plugin before 3.9.9 does not sanitise and escape a configuration parameter before outputting it back in an admin page when uploading a malicious preset configuration, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting. For the attack to be successful, an attacker would need an admin to upload a malicious configuration file

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wpmudev Smush Image Compression And Optimization All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Attention Required! | Cloudflare MISC wpscan.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Taurus Omar

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 150543 WordPress Smush Plugin : Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability (CVE-2022-1009)
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