CVE-2022-3220
Advanced Comment Form < 1.2.1 - Admin+ Authenticated Stored XSS
The Advanced Comment Form WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 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 Advanced Comment Form WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 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-2022-3220- 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
CVE List No score
Advanced Comment Form < 1.2.1 - Admin+ Authenticated Stored XSS
The Advanced Comment Form WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 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-2022-3220- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-42634 No score
The Advanced Comment Form WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 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-2022-42634- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7637-82pg-42r5
The Advanced Comment Form WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings...
The Advanced Comment Form WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 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-7637-82pg-42r5- 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-2022-3220 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Unknown Advanced Comment Form, published October 10, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.60%, the 49th percentile. No source names a fixed version.