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CVE-2022-40215

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40215 describes multiple authenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities affecting the Tabs plugin up to version 3.7.1 for WordPress. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) requires low privileges and user interaction, allowing an attacker to inject malicious scripts that could lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tabs_project:tabs:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.4LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.7
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 53rd 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/vc-tabs/wordpress-tabs-plugin-3-7-1-multiple-authenticated-stored-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities/_s_id=cve
Broken Link
wordpress.org / plugins/vc-tabs
Product