CVE-2022-1395: The Easy FAQ with Expanding Text WordPress plugin through 3.2.8.3.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_htm

medium Affects easy-faq-with-expanding-text (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The Easy FAQ with Expanding Text WordPress plugin through 3.2.8.3.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_htm

Package
easy-faq-with-expanding-text (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<=3.2.8.3.1
Fixed in
no fix recorded
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (48.5th percentile)
Published
2022-05-30
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordeasy-faq-with-expanding-text (WordPress plugin) advisories

Am I affected?

Find out in one command. phpwarden checks your WordPress install against this advisory and 20,000+ others, ranked by real-world exploitation (CISA KEV + EPSS). Free, offline, open data.

# one-time install
pip install phpwarden

# then
phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

Or keep it checked automatically with the GitHub Action or a nightly cron; see WordPress docs.

Install docs   How findings are ranked

Related advisories