WordPress theme
Ask Me <= 6.8.1 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2022-1241Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <6.8.2Update to 6.8.2 or newer
All remediation stepsMedium6.1CVSS 3.16.1CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2022-1241
- Product
- Ask Me - Responsive Questions & Answers WordPress ask-me
- Affected
- <6.8.2
- Fixed in
- 6.8.2
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Veshraj Ghimire
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected< 6.8.2
- Patched in6.8.2
Update to 6.8.2 or newer.
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:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
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
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Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 6.8.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 8.8CVE-2022-3750Cross-Site Request Forgery
- 8.8CVE-2022-1251Cross-Site Request Forgery
- 8.8CVE-2022-1424Cross-Site Request Forgery
- 7.2CVE-2026-120687Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Image Alt Attribute in .wp-caption Containers
- 6.4CVE-2026-110531Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Popup' Shortcode Attribute via Profile Video
- 5.4CVE-2026-127115Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'title' Attribute of [bf_login_form] Shortcode
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
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.