Smush – Lazy Load Images, Optimize & Compress Images <= 3.9.8 — Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2022-1009Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.9.8Update to 3.9.9 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.4
- CVSS
- 4.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN wp-smushit
- Affected≤ 3.9.8
- Patched in3.9.9
Update to 3.9.9 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.9.8. Version 3.9.9 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 3.9.9, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Taurus Omar.
The Smush – Lazy Load Images, Optimize & Compress Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'name' and 'description' parameters in versions up to, and including, 3.9.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This requires an attacker to trick an administrator into uploading a malicious configuration file in order to be successful.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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