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CVE-2022-25610WordPress Simple Ajax Chat plugin <= 20220115 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
- 3.4LowCVSS base score
- 0.72%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 45% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Simple Ajax Chat <= 20220115 allows an attacker to store the malicious code. However, the attack requires specific conditions, making it hard to exploit.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Patchstack
- 32 days later
· 32 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| PatchstackCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.72% · top 45% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.4.
Affected products
Jeff Starr · Simple Ajax Chat (WordPress plugin)
- affected <= 20220115 – ≤ 20220115
What to do
Solution: Update to 20220216 or higher version.
References
References2
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-ajax-chat/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/simple-ajax-chat/wordpress-simple-ajax-chat-plugin-20220115-unauthenticated-stored-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-30270 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-25610)Record last updated .