CVE-2022-0728

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2022-0728 · Published 11/04/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-0728 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting easy smooth scroll links (pootlepress).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.60%, higher than 48.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.23.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
easy smooth scroll links pootlepress	`< 2.23.1`	`2.23.1`

Description

The Easy Smooth Scroll Links WordPress plugin before 2.23.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/c6d3d308-4bf1-493f-86e9-dd623526e3c6 · Exploit

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