CVE-2022-1171 describes a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Vertical scroll recent post WordPress plugin prior to version 14.0. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts due to improper sanitization of a parameter before outputting it in an attribute, requiring user interaction to trigger. While the potential impact includes limited confidentiality and integrity compromise, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 14.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vertical_scroll_recent_post_project:vertical_scroll_recent_post:*:*:*:*:*: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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.