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CVE-2022-4791

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.4)—

The Product Slider and Carousel with Category for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.8 does not validate and escape one of its shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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)

Essentialplugin — Product Slider AND Carousel With Category With Woocommerce

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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