CVE-2022-4473

2023-02-1315:15:17

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cve-2022-4473

widget shortcode

wordpress

plugin

stored xss

validation bypass

5.4 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

23.5%

JSON

The Widget Shortcode WordPress plugin through 0.3.5 does not validate and escape some of 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

Vulners

NVD

Node

widget_shortcode_projectwidget_shortcodeRange≤0.3.5

VendorProductVersionCPE
widget_shortcode_projectwidget_shortcode*cpe:2.3:a:widget_shortcode_project:widget_shortcode:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
widget_shortcode_project	widget_shortcode	*	cpe:2.3:a:widget_shortcode_project:widget_shortcode::::::::

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "Unknown",
    "product": "Widget Shortcode",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "0.3.5"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "collectionURL": "https://wordpress.org/plugins"
  }
]