CVE-2022-2186
Simple Post Notes < 1.7.6 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Simple Post Notes WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing 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 Simple Post Notes WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- Record
CVE-2022-2186- 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
Simple Post Notes < 1.7.6 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Simple Post Notes WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- Record
CVE-2022-2186- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-34470 No score
The Simple Post Notes WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- Record
EUVD-2022-34470- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-fg8x-25mv-x5rh
The Simple Post Notes WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not sanitise and escape its settings,...
The Simple Post Notes WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- Record
GHSA-fg8x-25mv-x5rh- 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, products | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2022-2186 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Bracketspace Simple Post Notes, published July 17, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.59%, the 48th percentile. No source names a fixed version.