Security Advisory

CVE-2022-4697

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-12-23 15:11:46
Last updated 2026-04-08 16:47:40
Assigner Wordfence
State PUBLISHED

Description

The ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wp_user_cover_default_image_url’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 4.5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.