Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 6.8.2
- Affected Theme
- Ask Me - Responsive Questions & Answers WordPress
- Affected Version
< 6.8.2- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2022-1241
At a glance
CVE-2022-1241 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Ask Me - Responsive Questions & Answers WordPress WordPress theme, affecting versions < 6.8.2. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 6.8.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2022, reported by Veshraj Ghimire.
Vulnerability Overview
The Ask me WordPress theme before 6.8.2 does not properly sanitise and escape several of the fields in the Edit Profile page, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Ask Me - Responsive Questions & Answers WordPress < 6.8.2 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Ask Me - Responsive Questions & Answers WordPress the fix is 6.8.2: builds < 6.8.2 are affected, anything from 6.8.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 6.8.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Ask Me - Responsive Questions & Answers WordPress: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Ask Me - Responsive Questions & Answers WordPress 6.8.2 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
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External References
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