CVE-2022-4973

WordPress Core, in versions up to 6.0.2, is vulnerable to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting that can be exploited by users with access to the WordPress post and page editor, typically consisting of Authors, Contributors, and Editors making it possible to inject arbitrary web scripts into posts and pages that execute if the the_meta(); function is called on that page.

We have discovered 595,948 live websites that are affected by CVE-2022-4973.

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Affected Software

Product	WordPress
Category	Content Management System
Vulnerable Domains	595,948 live websites (6.89% of WordPress install base)
Vulnerable Versions	from 0 through 3.6.1 from 3.7 through 3.7.38 from 3.8 through 3.8.38 from 3.9 through 3.9.36 from 4 through 4.0.35 from 4.1 through 4.1.35 from 4.2 through 4.2.32 from 4.3 through 4.3.28 from 4.4 through 4.4.27 from 4.5 through 4.5.26 from 4.6 through 4.6.23 from 4.7 through 4.7.23 from 4.8 through 4.8.19 from 4.9 through 4.9.20 from 5 through 5.0.16 from 5.1 through 5.1.13 from 5.2 through 5.2.15 from 5.3 through 5.3.12 from 5.4 through 5.4.10 from 5.5 through 5.5.9 from 5.6 through 5.6.8 from 5.7 through 5.7.6 from 5.8 through 5.8.4 from 5.9 through 5.9.3 from 6 through 6.0.1
Vulnerable Versions Count	436 versions ( 66% of all versions)