CVE-2022-1772

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2022-1772 · Published 13/06/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-1772 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting google places reviews (google places reviews project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.77%, higher than 55.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.0.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
google places reviews google_places_reviews_project	`< 2.0.0`	`2.0.0`

Description

The Google Places Reviews WordPress plugin before 2.0.0 does not properly escape its Google API key setting, which is reflected on the site's administration panel. A malicious administrator could abuse this bug, in a multisite WordPress configuration, to trick super-administrators into viewing the booby-trapped payload and taking over their account.

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/02addade-d191-4e45-b7b5-2f3f673679ab · Exploit

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