CVE-2022-2983 — The Salat Times WordPress plugin before 3

The Salat Times WordPress plugin before 3.2.2 does not sanitize and escapes its settings, allowing high-privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

01What is this vulnerability?

The Salat Times WordPress plugin before 3.2.2 does not sanitize and escapes its settings, allowing high-privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Salat Times	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-11-28T13:47:14.433Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-25T15:16:04.246Z

09References

• wpscan.com — https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e2af8c7f-9bd4-4902-8df8-72ffb414fdbf