CVE-2022-0728
Easy Smooth Scroll Links < 2.23.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Easy Smooth Scroll Links WordPress plugin before 2.23.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
The Easy Smooth Scroll Links WordPress plugin before 2.23.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- Record
CVE-2022-0728- 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 - CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 Low
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Easy Smooth Scroll Links < 2.23.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Easy Smooth Scroll Links WordPress plugin before 2.23.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- Record
CVE-2022-0728- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-15797 No score
The Easy Smooth Scroll Links WordPress plugin before 2.23.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- Record
EUVD-2022-15797- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-r293-6vfc-hrp4
The Easy Smooth Scroll Links WordPress plugin before 2.23.1 does not sanitise and escape its...
The Easy Smooth Scroll Links WordPress plugin before 2.23.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- Record
GHSA-r293-6vfc-hrp4- 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 - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2022-0728 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Pootlepress Easy Smooth Scroll Links, published April 11, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.60%, the 48th percentile. No source names a fixed version.