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high 7.2

CVE-2022-2565 json

Best Payments Plugin for WP < 4.2.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-34818

cvss
7.2
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Simple Payment Donations & Subscriptions WordPress plugin before 4.2.1 does not sanitise and escape user input given in its forms, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins

Patch / fix

  • paymattic simple_payment_donations_&_subscriptions 4.2.1

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Exploit prediction

0.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d89eff7d-a3e6-4876-aa0e-6d17e206af83 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • Unknown Simple Payment Donations & Subscriptions Plugin by Paymattic – Best Payments Plugin for WP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

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