CVE-2022-0211

4.8 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (4.8) in getshieldsecurity shield security. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Shield Security WordPress plugin before 13.0.6 does not sanitise and escape admin notes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.8 medium

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

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2022-02-21
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

getshieldsecurity:shield_security

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d276cca-d6eb-4f4c-83dd-fbc03254c679
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d276cca-d6eb-4f4c-83dd-fbc03254c679

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