wordpress — security advisory
WordPress Core, in versions up to 6.0.2, is vulnerable to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting that can be exploited by users with access to the WordPress post and page editor, typically consisting of Authors, Contributors, and Editors making it possible to inject arbitrary web scripts into posts and pages that execute if the the_meta(); function is called on that page.
- Products
- wordpress
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.0.2+dfsg1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-4973
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
WordPress Core, in versions up to 6.0.2, is vulnerable to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting that can be exploited by users with access to the WordPress post and page editor, typically consisting of Authors, Contributors, and Editors making it possible to inject arbitrary web scripts into posts and pages that execute if the the_meta(); function is called on that page.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4973
wordpress
Fixed versions: 6.0.2+dfsg1-1
wordpress
Fixed versions: 6.0.2+dfsg1-1
wordpress
Fixed versions: 6.0.2+dfsg1-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-15T08:03:16.482366314Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 326012,
"published_at": "2024-10-16T07:15:12.497+00:00"
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