CVE-2022-3462

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2022-3462 · Published 07/11/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-3462 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting highlight focus (highlight focus project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.73%, higher than 54.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
highlight focus highlight_focus_project	`= 1.1`	No fix yet

Description

The Highlight Focus WordPress plugin through 1.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/b583de48-1332-4984-8c0c-a7ed4a2397cd · Exploit

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