CVE-2022-0220 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the WordPress GDPR & CCPA plugin versions prior to 1.9.27. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to inject and execute malicious JavaScript in a victim's browser due to improper content-type headers and unescaped HTML in the check_privacy_settings AJAX action. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.1, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. While not actively exploited in the wild and not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, Nuclei templates exist for detection, and there is no known Metasploit or ExploitDB exploit code. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.9.26CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:welaunch:wordpress_gdpr\&ccpa:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.