CVE-2022-4482

Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel < 2.5.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Medium · published January 16, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel WordPress plugin before 2.5.3 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00471 · 39.8th percentile
Published
2023-01-16T15:37Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JAN 15:37Z
    Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel < 2.5.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
    cvelistv5