CVE-2022-29442

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-29442 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Messages For WordPress plugin up to version 2.1.10. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.4) allows authenticated users, such as subscribers, to inject malicious scripts, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.1.10CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:private_messages_project:private_messages::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.3

Impact Score

2.7

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.52%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

41.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0052 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 15,224 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/private-messages-for-wordpress/wordpress-private-messages-for-wordpress-plugin-2-1-10-authenticated-stored-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Third Party Advisory

wordpress.org / plugins/private-messages-for-wordpress

Product