CVE-2022-2658: Wpspellcheck

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Spell Check WordPress plugin before 9.13 does not escape ignored words, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

• Wpspellcheck Wpspellcheck: before 9.13 (fixed in 9.13)

Published 2023-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.