CVE-2022-4697: Properfraction Profilepress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ProfilePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wp_user_cover_default_image_url’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 4.5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• Properfraction Profilepress: before 4.5.1 (fixed in 4.5.1)

Published 2022-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.