CVE-2022-45839 — Auth

Auth. (contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WHA WHA Puzzle plugin <= 1.0.9 versions.

01What is this vulnerability?

Auth. (contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WHA WHA Puzzle plugin <= 1.0.9 versions.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
WHA	WHA Puzzle	n/a

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2023-04-18T12:33:16.697Z
• Last modified: 2025-01-10T18:50:51.960Z

09References

• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wha-puzzle/wordpress-wha-puzzle-pl…