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CVE-2022-4834

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.4)—

The CPT Bootstrap Carousel WordPress plugin through 1.12 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

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)

CPT Bootstrap Carousel Project — CPT Bootstrap Carousel

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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