CVE-2022-4973: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WordPress Core, in versions up to 6.0.2, is vulnerable to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting that can be exploited by users with access to the WordPress post and page editor, typically consisting of Authors, Contributors, and Editors making it possible to inject arbitrary web scripts into posts and pages that execute if the the_meta(); function is called on that page.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 6.0.2

Published 2024-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.