CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4488
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-02-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
The Widgets on Pages WordPress plugin before 1.8.0 does not validate and escape its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.
Affected configurations
• widgets on pages project widgets on pages (<= 1.6.0)
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e52c18a9-550a-40b1-a413-0e06e5b4aabc Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e52c18a9-550a-40b1-a413-0e06e5b4aabc Exploit, Third Party Advisory