CVE-2022-1582: Webfactoryltd External Links In New Window / New Tab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The External Links in New Window / New Tab WordPress plugin before 1.43 does not properly escape URLs it concatenates to onclick event handlers, which makes Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks possible.

Affected products

• Webfactoryltd External Links In New Window / New Tab: before 1.43 (fixed in 1.43)

Published 2022-05-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.