CVE-2022-4449

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.4)—

Severity5.4Medium · CVSS 3.1

Exploitation probability0.47 %higher than 40% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitNot knownno public code found

The Page scroll to id WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 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.

CVSS

Base score: 5.4
Version: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.47 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 40
Score date: 10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Page Scroll TO ID Project — Page Scroll TO ID

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