CVE-2022-3408

4.8 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (4.8) in redlettuce wp word count. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Word Count WordPress plugin through 3.2.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when 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: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2022-10-31
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

redlettuce:wp_word_count

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/395bc893-2067-4f76-b49f-9ed8e1e8f330
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/395bc893-2067-4f76-b49f-9ed8e1e8f330

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