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Ad Inserter Free and Pro <= 2.7.11 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2022-0901Published · Updated

Action summary

Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads: Affected: <2.7.12Update to 2.7.12 or newer

Ad Inserter Pro: Affected: <2.7.12Update to 2.7.12 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads ad-inserter

  1. Affected< 2.7.12
  2. Patched in2.7.12

Update to 2.7.12 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.7.12. Version 2.7.12 and later are not affected by this issue.

Ad Inserter Pro ad-inserter-pro

  1. Affected< 2.7.12
  2. Patched in2.7.12

Update to 2.7.12 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.7.12. Version 2.7.12 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.7.12, or a newer patched version
  2. Update to version 2.7.12, or a newer patched version
  3. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  4. Watch Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Taurus Omar.

The Ad Inserter Free and Pro WordPress plugins before 2.7.12 do not sanitise and escape the REQUEST_URI before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Medium6.5Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via 's' Search Parameter
≤2.8.19Update to 2.8.20
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High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.8.19Update to 2.8.20
CVE-2026-105077
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.8.18Update to 2.8.19
CVE-2026-118094
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.8.18Update to 2.8.19
CVE-2026-114709
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≤2.8.18Update to 2.8.19
CVE-2026-114194

Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)

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Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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